Patricio Ponce de León (August 26, 1915 – February 26, 2010) was a Cuban
mycologist. He was a professor at
Belen School in
Havana
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University of Havana
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, and later a
curator
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at the
Field Museum of Natural History in
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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. He wrote a
monograph on the worldwide species of the family
Geastraceae
Geastrales is an order of gasterocarpic basidiomycetes (fungi) that are related to Cantharellales. The order contains the single family Geastraceae, commonly known as "earthstars", which older classifications had placed in Lycoperdales, or Ph ...
, the earthstar fungi. Ponce de León died in
Miami, Florida
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.
Taxa described
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Acutocapillitium'' 1976
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Acutocapillitium portoricense'' 1976
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Bovista cacao'' 1975
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Geastrum furfuraceum'' 1968
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Geastrum victorinii'' 1946
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Morganella stercoraria'' 1971
Selected publications
*Ponce de León P. (1968)
"A revision of the Family Geastraceae".''Fieldiana: Botany'' 31 (14): 303–352.
*Ponce de León P. (1969)
"A new member of ''Morganella''".''Fieldiana: Botany'' 32 (6): 69–71.
*Ponce de León P. (1970)
"Revision of the genus ''Vascellum'' (Lycoperdaceae)".''Fieldiana: Botany'' 32 (9):109–126.
*Ponce de León P. (1971)
"Revision of the genus ''Morganella'' (Lycoperdaceae)."''Fieldiana: Botany'' 34 (3):27–44.
*Ponce de León P. (1975)
"Notes on ''Calvatia'' (Lycoperdaceae), I".''Fieldiana: Botany'' 38 (1):1–3.
*Ponce de León P. (1976)
"''Acutocapillitium'', a new genus in the Lycoperdaceae".''Fieldiana: Botany'' 38 (4):23–29.
*Ponce de León P. (1976)
"Notes on ''Calvatia'' (Lycoperdaceae), II : ''Calvatia cretacea'' (Berk.) Lloyd, an Arctic montane plant".''Fieldiana: Botany'' 38 (3):15–22.
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Singer R, Ponce de León P. (1983). "Sister Mary Cecilia Bodman, 1905–1982". ''Mycologia'' 75 (5):932–933.
*Smith CW, Ponce de León P. (1982). "Hawaiian geastroid fungi". ''Mycologia'' 74 (5):712–717.
*Singer R, Ponce de León P, Machol RE. (1984). "(42-44) Three Proposals to Amend the Code". ''Taxon'' 33 (4):745–47.
References
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1915 births
2010 deaths
Mycologists
Scientists from Chicago
Cuban emigrants to the United States