Robert_Kühner

Robert Kühner

Robert Kühner

French mycologist

Robert Kühner (15 March 1903 in Paris – 27 February 1996 in Lyon) was a French mycologist most notable for reviewing many forms of agaric (mushroom fungus) genera.

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He studied at the Sorbonne, afterwards from 1921 until 1932, he was working as a high school teacher in Lille. Then from 1938 till 1973, he was associated with the Faculty of Sciences at Lyon.[1][2]

He was honoured in 1946, with Kuehneromyces, which is a genus of fungi in the family Strophariaceae.[3]

Selected works

  • Contribution à l'étude des hyménomycètes et spécialement des agaricacés, 1926 - Contribution to the study of Hymenomycetes and especially of Agaricales.
  • Le genre Galera (Fries) Quélet, 1935 - The genus Galera (Fries) Quélet.
  • Le genre Mycena (Fries) Étude cytologique et systématique des espèces d'Europe et d'Amérique du Nord, 1938 - The genus Mycena (Fries), cytological and systematic studies of species native to Europe and North America.
  • Flore analytique des champignons supérieurs (agarics, bolets, chanterelles), 1953 - Analysis of major mushrooms (agarics, boletes, chanterelles).
  • Compléments à la "Flore analytique, 1954 - Additions to the "Flora analytique".[4]
  • Agaricales de la zone alpine: Amanitacées, 1972 - Agaricales of the Alpine zone: Amanitaceae.[5]
The standard author abbreviation Kühner is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Lamoure D, Miller Jr OK (1999). "Robert Kühner, 1903–1996". Mycologia. 91 (4): 707–13. doi:10.1080/00275514.1999.12061072. JSTOR 3761259.
  2. [2]
    Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Kuehneromyces Singer & A.H.Sm". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  4. [4]
    WorldCat Identities (publications)
  5. [5]
    ISREF.fr (bibliography)
  6. [6]
    International Plant Names Index.  Kühner.


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