Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel (3 February 1821 – 8 May 1876) was a German
botanist who worked largely on
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 ...
.
He worked as an
apothecary
''Apothecary'' () is a mostly archaic term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses '' materia medica'' (medicine) to physicians, surgeons, and patients. The modern chemist (British English) or pharmacist (British and North Amer ...
from 1836 to 1852, afterwards deriving income from a vineyard he owned in
Oestrich im Rheingau.
[ADB:Fuckel, Leopold]
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
The species epithet in the binomen ''
Botryotinia fuckeliana
''Botryotinia'' is a genus of ascomycete fungi causing several plant diseases. The anamorphs of ''Botryotinia'' are mostly included in the "imperfect fungi" genus ''Botrytis''. The genus contains 22 species and one hybrid.
Plant diseases caused ...
'', a plant pathogen and the causal agent of
gray mold disease, was named by mycologist
Heinrich Anton de Bary
Heinrich Anton de Bary (26 January 183119 January 1888) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist (fungal systematics and physiology).
He is considered a founding father of plant pathology (phytopathology) as well as the fou ...
in honor of him. Fuckel was the
taxonomic authority
In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...
of the mycological genera ''
Aleuria'', ''
Phyllachora'' (
Nitschke ex Fuckel), ''
Plectania'' and ''
Sclerotinia
''Sclerotinia'' is a genus of 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 ...
''.
[The Mushroom Journal]
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Works
His exsiccatae of Rhineland fungi, "Fungi rhenani exsiccati", contained a number of the type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
for the taxa that he proclaimed [ (Edit I Fascic. I-XXVII, 1863–75, edit. Fascic II. I-XXI, 1871–75). He was also the author of:
* "Enumeratio Fungorum Nassoviae", Series I, (1860) - Catalog of fungi from Nassau.
* "Symbolae mycologicae, Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Rheinischen Pilze", (1869–70); three supplements (1871, 1873 and 1875) - Contributions to the knowledge of Rhenish mushrooms.][
Formerly in nations that did not speak English, the abbreviation Fuck. (with fullstop) was sometimes used.]
See also
* :Taxa named by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel
References
External links
brief biographical information
19th-century German botanists
German mycologists
1821 births
1876 deaths
People from Wetteraukreis
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