fungi
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Doubs
Doubs (, ; ; frp, Dubs) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France. Named after the river Doubs, it had a population of 543,974 in 2019.farmer, was soon orphaned, and spent his childhood with and was raised by his aunts. In his youth, he is known to have shown a great interest in mycology and
botany
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in general, but also other subject areas such as
ornithology
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and malacology, the study of mollusks. He was schooled at the
Montbéliard
Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department.
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college
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, and later studied
medicine
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in Strasbourg.
In 1884, he founded the mycological society known as the Société mycologique de France, of which he became the first president. Several years after this, in 1888, Quélet wrote a book, ''Flore mycologique de la France et des pays limitrophes'' (''Mycological flora of France and neighbouring countries'').
Quélet also described several species during his mycological research. Some are listed below:
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Agaricus bitorquis
''Agaricus bitorquis'' is an edible white mushroom of the genus ''Agaricus'', similar to the common button mushroom that is sold commercially. The name supersedes ''Agaricus rodmani''. It is also commonly known as torq, the banded agaric, spring ...
Bondarzewia montana
''Bondarzewia mesenterica'' (synonym: ''Bondarzewia montana'') is a species of polypore fungus in the family Bondarzewiaceae. It was first described as ''Boletus mesentericus'' by Jacob Christian Schäffer in 1774. Hanns Kreisel transferred it ...
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Clavariadelphus truncatus
''Clavariadelphus truncatus'' is a species of mushroom. The common name of the species is truncated club or club coral. It is a member of the basidiomycete fungi family Gomphaceae.
Description
The species has a yellow-orange fruiting body in th ...
Collybia cirrhata
''Collybia cirrhata'' is a species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae of the order Agaricales (gilled mushrooms). The species was first described in the scientific literature in 1786, but was not validly named until 1803. Found in Euro ...
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Lepiota aspera
''Echinoderma asperum'' or ''Lepiota aspera'', sometimes known commonly as the freckled dapperling, is a large, brownish, white-gilled mushroom, with a warty or scaly cap. It lives in woodland, or on bark chips in parks, and gardens.
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Lepiota castanea
''Lepiota castanea'', commonly known as the chestnut dapperling or petite parasol, is a deadly poisonous, uncommon, gilled mushroom of the genus ''Lepiota'' in the order Agaricales. It is known to contain amatoxins and consuming this fungus can b ...
Russula amethystina
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Tricholoma pardinum
''Tricholoma pardinum'', commonly known as spotted tricholoma, tiger tricholoma, tigertop, leopard knight, or dirty trich, is a gilled mushroom widely distributed across North America, Europe, and parts of Asia. It is generally found in beec ...
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Xerocomellus armeniacus
''Rheubarbariboletus armeniacus'' is a small mushroom in the family Boletaceae native to Europe. It was formerly placed in the genera '' Boletus'', ''Xerocomus'', and ''Xerocomellus''. It acquired its current name when it was transferred to genu ...
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Numerous
taxa
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were named after Quélet to honor his contributions to mycology, including the species ''
Amanita queletii
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Boletus queletii
''Suillellus queletii'' (formerly ''Boletus queletii''), commonly known as the deceiving bolete, is an uncommon, edible mushroom in the genus ''Suillellus''.
Naming
Originally described by Stephan Schulzer von Müggenburg in 1885 as a species ...
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Entoloma queletii
''Entoloma'' is a large genus of terrestrial pink-gilled mushrooms, with about 1,000 species. Most have a drab appearance, pink gills which are attached to the stem, a smooth thick cap, and angular spores. Many entolomas are saprobic but som ...
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Russula queletii
''Russula queletii'' otherwise known as the gooseberry russula, is a common, inedible, '' Russula'' mushroom found growing in groups, predominantly in spruce
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Queletia
''Queletia'' is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae. The genus was described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1872. Fruit bodies of ''Queletia'' species are roughly spherical with a stipe-like base. They have a thin outer skin ( peridium) and a ...
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Quélet has been described to be a combination of
Petter Adolf Karsten
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and Paul Kummer, as far as his conducting of his studies and on his mycological researching skills, as well as by the number of new species he was able to find. Much of Quélet's work proves useful still today, and many of the names given to some of the most common fungi can be traced to Quélet's work.
During the last years of his life, Quélet broadened his range of study, perhaps due to eccentricity, as is claimed by some, and began to have new interests in some of the things that fascinated him as a youth –
ornithology
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and malacology, among others.
At the age of sixty-seven, Lucien Quélet died in 1899.
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