Abbé Giacomo Bresadola     (1847 - 1929)




Image of Abbé Giacomo Bresadola from Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes
Abbé Giacomo Bresadola

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Biography

The Dictionary of Fungi calls Bresadola "an amateur mycologist of Trento, Italy." I think that the photo shows his opinion of that.


Image of Abbé Giacomo Bresadola from Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes
Abbé Giacomo BresadolaHere is another photo of him, before people started doubting his identifications; note that his expression is much calmer. Murrill visited him on one of his trips through Europe, and said that Bresadola was the most "self-confident" person he had ever met. Considering Murrill's relationship with Nathaniel Lord Britton, that's saying quite a bit. Maybe it explains why Bresadola and Lloyd got along so well. Lloyd seems to have visited him a lot, but has very little biographical information.

Another picture of Bresadola, with William Alphonso Murrill, can be seen at the NYBG web page below.

Other Web Sources

NYBG fungal herbarium

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Selected Publications

Abbé Giacomo Bresadola (1881 - 1892) Fungi Tridentini novi vel nondum delineati descripti et iconibus illustrati (New Fungi of Tridentia, well separated by names and descriptions, and illustrated with pictures)

Abbé Giacomo Bresadola (1927 - 1960) Iconographia mycologica (Mycological Pictures) 28 vol.
The Agaricaceae are in volumes 1-18; the other genera are probably under-represented.


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Species

Clitocybe candida Bresadola
Collybia cookei (Bresadola) C. A. Arnold
Dacrymyces palmatus (Schweinitz) Bresadola
Gloeoporus dichrous (Fries) Bresadola
Lepiota helveola Bresadola
Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (Schweinitz) Bresadola

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Genera

Hydnochaete Bresadola

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