Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel (3 February 1821 – 8 May 1876) was a German
botanist
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who worked largely on
fungi.
He worked as an
apothecary from 1836 to 1852, afterwards deriving income from a vineyard he owned in
Oestrich im Rheingau.
[ADB:Fuckel, Leopold]
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The species epithet in the binomen ''
Botryotinia fuckeliana'', a plant pathogen and the causal agent of
gray mold
''Botrytis cinerea'' is a necrotrophic fungus that affects many plant species, although its most notable hosts may be wine grapes. In viticulture, it is commonly known as "botrytis bunch rot"; in horticulture, it is usually called "grey mould" or ...
disease, was named by mycologist
Heinrich Anton de Bary in honor of him. Fuckel was the
taxonomic authority of the mycological genera ''
Aleuria
''Aleuria'' is a genus of cup fungi within the phylum Ascomycota. The best known species is Orange peel fungus, ''A. aurantia''.
''Aleuria'' species are saprobes.
Description
*This genus is distinguished by the lack of gills, and epigeous natu ...
'', ''
Phyllachora
''Phyllachora'' is a genus of fungi in the family Phyllachoraceae. An Outline of Fungi in 2020 listed up to 1513 species.
'' Phyllachora queenslandica'' (from Australia) is found on shrub '' Neolitsea dealbata''.
Species
A selected few are show ...
'' (
Nitschke ex Fuckel), ''
Plectania
''Plectania'' is a genus of fungi in the family Sarcosomataceae. There are 15 species in the genus, which have a widespread distribution, especially in northern temperate areas. ''Plectania'' was circumscribed by German botanist Karl Wilhelm Got ...
'' and ''
Sclerotinia''.
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Works
*His exsiccata of Rhineland fungi, "Fungi rhenani exsiccati", contained a number of type specimens
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and taxonomic information on novelties of 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), an exsiccata-like series with Catalog of fungi from ]Nassau
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Canada
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.[
* "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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