Alexander Hanchett Smith

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1904 - 1986)

Photo of Tylopilus rubrobruneus by John Denk

Tylopilus rubrobruneus

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Biography

For many years the dean of american mycologists. He probably named more valid species than anyone except Lewis David von Schweinitz and Charles Horton Peck. He now has a biography on the website of the University of Michigan herbarium.

Photo of Boletus campestris by John Denk

Boletus campestris

His wife, Helen Vendler Smith, and daughter, Nancy Smith Weber, are also mycologists.

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Selected Publications

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1939) "Studies on the genus Cortinarius: I" in Contr. of the University of Michigan Herbarium 2 pp. 1 - 42

Walter Henry Snell & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1940) "B. longicurvipes article" in Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 56 p. 325

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1941) "Studies of North American agarics: I." in Contr. of the University of Michigan Herbarium 5 pp. 1 - 73

Rolf Singer & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1943) "A Monograph of the Genus Leucopaxillus" in Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences 28 pp. 85 - 132

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1944) "Interesting North American agarics" in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 71 pp. 390 - 409

Alexander Hanchett Smith & Rolf Singer (1945) "A monograph of the genus Cystoderma" in Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences 30 pp. 71 - 124

Rolf Singer & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1946) "Proposals concerning the nomenclature of the gill fungi including a list of proposed lectotypes and genera conservanda" in Mycologia 38 pp. 240 - 299

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1947) North American Species of Mycena

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1949) Mushrooms in their Natural Habitats 626 pp.

This is an awesome book. In addition to the text, it has stereoscopic images of all the fungi described in ViewMasterTM format. Very nice pictures.

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1951) "The North American species of Naematoloma" in Mycologia 43 pp. 467 - 521

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1951) Puffballs and their allies in Michigan

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1957) "A contribution towards a monograph of Phaeocollybia" in Brittonia 9 pp. 195 - 217

Alexander Hanchett Smith & Rolf Singer (1959) "Studies in Secotiaceous Fungi: IV. Gastroboletus, Truncocolumella, Chamonixia" in Brittonia 11 pp. 205 - 223

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1960) "Tricholomopsis in the Western Hemisphere" in Brittonia 12 pp. 41 - 76

Rolf Singer & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1960) "Studies in Secotiaceous Fungi: IX. The Astrogastraceous Series" in Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 21 pp. 1 - 112

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1963) Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide 264 pp.

Lexemuel Ray Hesler & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1963) North American Species of Hygrophorus

Alexander Hanchett Smith & Harry Delbert Thiers (1964) A contribution towards a monograph of North American species of Suillus

Lexemuel Ray Hesler & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1965) North American species of Crepidotus

Alexander Hanchett Smith, Orson K. Miller, Jr. & Harry Delbert Thiers (1965) "The species of Suillus and Fuscoboletinus of Priest River Experimental Forest and Vicinity, Priest River, Idaho" in Lloydia 28 pp. 120 - 138

Alexander Hanchett Smith, Harry Delbert Thiers & Roy Watling (1967) "Leccinum snellii article" in Michigan Botany 6 pp. 120 - 121

Alexander Hanchett Smith & Lexemuel Ray Hesler (1968) The North American species of Pholiota

A very disappointing book. About two thirds of the species in it are declared as new in the book itself; so without further research, you have no idea whether any of those species ended up being accepted by the other mycologists.

Alexander Hanchett Smith & Harry Delbert Thiers (1968) "Tylopilus chromapes article" in Mycologia 60 p. 948

Harry Delbert Thiers & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1969) "Hypogeous Cortinarii" in Mycologia 61 pp. 526 - 536

Alexander Hanchett Smith & Harry Delbert Thiers (1971) The Boletes of Michigan

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1972) "The North American species of Psathyrella" in New York Botanical Garden Mycological Memoir 24

Alexander Hanchett Smith & James M. Trappe (1972) "The higher fungi of Oregon's Cascade Head Experimental Forest and Vicinity: I" in Mycologia 64 pp. 1138 - 1153

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1975) A Field Guide to Western Mushrooms

Alexander Hanchett Smith & Harry Delbert Thiers (1975) The Boletes of Michigan

Joseph F. Ammirati & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1977) "Studies in the genus Cortinarius: II: Section Dermocybe, new North American species" in Mycotaxon 5 pp. 381 - 397

D. H. Mitchel & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1978) "Notes on Colorado fungi: III: New and interesting mushrooms from the aspen zone" in Mycologia 70 pp. 1040 - 1063

Alexander Hanchett Smith, Helen Vendler Smith & Nancy Smith Weber (1979) How to Know the Gilled Mushrooms

Alexander Hanchett Smith (1979) "The Stirps Caligata of Armilaria in North America" in Sydowia 8 pp. 368 - 377

Lexemuel Ray Hesler & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1979) North American Species of Lactarius

Alexander Hanchett Smith & Nancy Smith Weber (1980) The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide

Alexander Hanchett Smith, Helen Vendler Smith & Nancy Smith Weber (1981) How to Know the Non-Gilled Mushrooms 2nd ed.

Alexander Hanchett Smith, V. S. Evenson & D. H. Mitchel (1983) The veiled species of Hebeloma in the Western United States

Nancy Smith Weber & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1985) A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms 1st ed.

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Species

Boletus campestris Thiers & A. H. Smith
Boletus longicurvipes Snell & A. H. Smith
Boletus pseudosensibilis Thiers & A. H. Smith
Clitocybe irina (Fries) H. E. Bigelow & A. H. Smith
Clitocybe nuda (Fries) A. H. Smith & H. E. Bigelow
Cortinarius marylandensis Ammirati & A. H. Smith
Craterellus fallax A. H. Smith
Cystoderma amianthinum var. rugosoreticulatum (Lorinser) Singer & A. H. Smith
Cystoderma fallax A. H. Smith & Singer
Cystoderma granosum (A. P. Morgan) Singer & A. H. Smith
Galerina autumnalis (Peck) Singer & A. H. Smith
Gymnopilus spectabilis (Fries) A. H. Smith
Hygrophorus acutoconicus (F. E. Clements) A. H. Smith
Hygrophorus bakerensis A. H. Smith & Hesler
Hygrophorus flavescens (Kauffman) A. H. Smith & Hesler
Hygrophorus marginatus var. olivasceus A. H. Smith & Hesler
Hygrophorus subsalmonius A. H. Smith & Hesler
Lactarius argillaceifolius A. H. Smith & Hesler
Lactarius cinereus A. H. Smith & Hesler
Lactarius quietus Hesler & A. H. Smith
Lactarius thyinos A. H. Smith
Lactarius vinaceorufescens A. H. Smith
Leccinum holopus var. americanum A. H. Smith & Thiers
Leccinum snellii Thiers, R. Watling & A. H. Smith
Leucopaxillus laterarius (Peck) Singer & A. H. Smith
Mycena atkinsoniana A. H. Smith
Mycena griseoviridis A. H. Smith
Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) Hesler & A. H. Smith
Pholiota veris (A. H. Smith & Singer) Hesler & A. H. Smith
Phylloporus rhodoxanthus var. silvicola A. H. Smith
Psathyrella conissans (Peck) A. H. Smith
Psathyrella delineata (Peck) A. H. Smith
Psathyrella foenisecii (Persoon: Fries) A. H. Smith
Psathyrella rugocephala (G. F. Atkinson) A. H. Smith
Psathyrella septentrionalis A. H. Smith
Tylopilus chromapes (Frost) Thiers & A. H. Smith
Tylopilus rubrobruneus Mazzer & A. H. Smith
Xeromphalina kaufmannii A. H. Smith
Xeromphalina tenuipes (Schweinitz) A. H. Smith

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