Leopold Fuckel

Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel (born February 3, 1821 in Reichelsheim (Wetterau) , † May 8, 1876 in Vienna ) was a German mycologist and botanist who mainly dealt with mushrooms . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Fuckel ".

Live and act

From 1836 to 1852 Fuckel worked as a pharmacist . He later earned his living from a vineyard he had owned and was able to concentrate fully on his studies.

He researched the mushrooms that the Second German North Pole Expedition had collected in 1869 and 1870.

He put on an important collection of dried mushrooms from the Rhine area "Fungi rhenani exsiccati", in which he collected several thousand specimens, including specimen copies of the taxa he described and later handed over to the Nassau Association for Natural History . This collection is now in the Natural History State Collection in the Wiesbaden Museum .

In 1869, Fuckel published a classification developed by him into "Fungi Perfecti" and " Fungi Imperfecti " depending on whether they show a sexual or asexual morphology . Mycologist James Scott calls this an "unfortunate decision" that mycology set back a century.

Fuckel also coined the term conidium as a term used for a long time for spores of asexually multiplying fungi, today mitospore .

Some German botanists of his time named Fuckel's name in species lists with Fuck . abbreviated, which led to some irritation among English-speaking colleagues.

Taxa described by Fuckel (small selection)

• Genera
  • Aleuria Fuckel (1870)
  • Ciboria Fuckel (1870)
  • Exoascus Fuckel (1870)
  • Otidea Fuckel (1870)
  • Phyllachora ( Nitschke ) Fuckel (1870)
  • Plectania Fuckel (1870)
  • Sclerotinia Fuckel (1870)

• species
  • Aleuria aurantia ( Pers. ) Fuckel (1870)
  • Aleuria rhenana Fuckel (1870)
  • Ciboria caucus (Rebent.) Fuckel (1870)
  • Exoascus cerasi Fuckel 1870
  • Otidea leporina ( Batsch ) Fuckel (1870)
  • Plectania coccinea ( Scop. ) Fuckel 1870
  • Plectania melastoma ( Sowerby ) Fuckel 1870
  • Taphrina cerasi Fuckel (1870), identical to Sadeb. 1890

Works

• Enumeratio fungorum Nassoviae (Catalog of the Mushrooms of Nassau), 1860
• Fungi rhenani exsiccati (Exsiccati Rheinischer Pilze) (1863 to 1874)
• Symbolae mycologicae. Contributions to the knowledge of the Rhenish mushrooms. Wiesbaden, J. Niedner, 1969-1870
• Symbolae mycologicae, supplements (Mycological symbols, supplements) 3 vol. 1871 to 1875

The entomologist Carl Ludwig Kirschbaum wrote a necrology in the yearbooks of the Nassau Association for Natural History 29/30: 432–433.

literature

• Kny .:  Fuckel, Leopold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 176.

swell

• Entry in the Illinois Mycological Association ( Memento of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

1. ↑ http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/courses/bot404/modules/BOT404H-Mod1.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.6 MB)  
2. ↑ http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html ( Memento from February 4, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Mycobank

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Leopold Fuckel at the IPNI