Camille Torrend (1875-1961) was a Portuguese clergyman and

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

. He was active in France, Portugal, Ireland and Brazil. He was a professor of botany and phytopathology at the

Imperial Agricultural School of Bahia The Imperial School of Agricultural of Bahia (''Imperial Escola Agrícola da Bahia'') is a former agricultural school in São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, Brazil. It opened in 1875 as one of three agriculture schools founded under the direction of D ...

. Torrend described the fungi genera of; '' Amauroderma aurantiacum'', '' Adustomyces'', and ''

Lignosus ''Lignosus'' is a genus of polypore fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was Circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 1920 by mycologists Curtis Gates Lloyd and Camille Torrend, with ''Lignosus sacer, L. sacer'' as the type specie ...

''. The fungal genera of ''

Torrendia ''Torrendia'' is a genus of agaric fungi in the family Amanitaceae in part defined by being sequestrate. By molecular analyses the genus was shown to be part of ''Amanita'' and has now been placed in synonymy with ''Amanita''. The type species, '' ...

'' (the family

Amanitaceae The Amanitaceae is a family of mushroom-forming fungi. ''Amanita'' Pers. is one of the most specious and best-known fungal genera. The family, also commonly called the amanita family, is in order Agaricales, the gilled mushrooms. The family co ...

) and '' Torrendiella'' (in the family Sclerotiniaceae) were both named after him.

Works

* 1908. ''Les myxomycètes. Étude des espèces connues jusqu’ici''. Broteria 7: 5–177, tab., fig. * 1909. ''Notes de mycologie Portugaise. Résultats d’une excursion à la propriété royale de Villa Viçosa''. Boletim de Sociedade Portuquesa de Ciencias Naturais 3: 3-7 * 1912. ''Les Basidiomycetes des environs de Lisbonne et de la région de S. Fiel (Beira Baixa)''. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 10: 192-210 * 1913. ''Troisième contribution pour l’étude des champignons de l’île de Madère''. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 9: 65-181 * 1913. ''Les Basidiomycetes des environs de Lisbonne et de la région de S. Fiel (Beira Baixa) ont.'. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 11: 20-64 * 1913. ''Les Basidiomycetes des environs de Lisbonne et de la région de S. Fiel (Beira Baixa) oncl.'. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 11: 54-98 * 1940. ''As poliporaceas da Bahia e Estados limítrofes''. Anales de la Reunión Sul-Amer. Bot. 1938 2: 325-341

Honors

* El Herbario del Departamento de Micología, from Universidad Federal de Pernambuco ;

Genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

fungi A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...

* ''Torrendia'' (1902), * ''Torrendiella'' (1911), ;Species of plants: * (

Malvaceae Malvaceae, or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. Well-known members of economic importance include okra, cotton, cacao and durian. There are also some genera containing familiar ...

) '' Bakeridesia torrendii'' Monteiro * ( Melastomataceae) ''

Microlicia ''Microlicia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae Melastomataceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics (two-thirds of the genera are from the New World tropics) comprising c. 175 ...

torrendii'' BradeArq. Bot. Estado Sao Paulo n.s., form. maior, 3: 252 1962 (IK)

References

Portuguese mycologists Portuguese biologists 1875 births 1961 deaths {{mycologist-stub