Hubert Bourdot (30 October 1861 – 30 September 1937) was a French

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priest and

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who was a native of Imphy, a community in the department of

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in Saint-Priest-en-Murat. He was a member of the

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, serving as its vice-president in 1919, and later becoming an honorary president (1929). He bequeathed his mycological collection to the

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

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. With mycologist

Amédée Galzin Amédée Galzin (1 May 1853, Parrinet, Aveyron – 14 February 1925, Parrinet) was a French veterinarian and mycologist. In 1878 he obtained his degree from the veterinary college in Toulouse. From 1879 to 1905, he served as a military veter ...

(1853–1925), he was co-author of a series of publications (1909–1925) involving

Hymenomycetes Hymenomycetes was formerly the largest taxonomic group of fungi within the division Basidiomycota, but the term is no longer taxonomically relevant. Many familiar fungi belong to this class, including bracket fungi and toadstools. This class conta ...

native to France (published in the ''Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France'').

Selected publications

* ''Hyménomycètes de France: I. Heterobasidiés'', 1909 * ''Hyménomycètes de France: II. Homobasidiés: Clavariés et Cyphellés'', 1910 * ''Hyménomycètes de France: III. Corticiées: Corticium, Epithele, Asterostromella'', 1911 * ''Hyménomycètes de France: IV. Corticiées: Vuilleminia, Aleurodiscus, Dendrothele, Gloeocystidium, Peniophora'', 1912 * ''Hyménomycètes de France: V. Hydnées'', 1914 * ''Hyménomycètes de France: VI. Asterostromés'', 1920 * ''Hyménomycètes de France: VII. Stereum'', 1921 * ''Hyménomycètes de France: VIII. Hymenochaete'', 1923 * ''Hyménomycètes de France: IX. Meruliés'', 1923 * ''Hyménomycètes de France. X. Phylactèriés'', 1924 * ''Hyménomycètes de France, XI., 1925 * ''Heterobasidiae nondum descriptae'', 1924 (descriptions of a few

jelly fungi Jelly fungi are a paraphyletic group of several heterobasidiomycete fungal orders from different classes of the subphylum Agaricomycotina: Tremellales, Dacrymycetales, Auriculariales and Sebacinales. These fungi are so named because their foli ...

), with Galzin in: Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France. * ''Contribution à la Flore Mycologique de la France: I. Hyménomycètes de France. Hétérobasidiés-Homobasidiés Gymnocarpes'', with Galzin (761 pp.), 1927.

References

Selection of Publications of Hubert Bourdot
@ Mushroom Journal

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