Robert Lynn Shaffer     (b. 1929)


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Biography
Selected publications
Species

Biography

Bob is a professor at the University of Michigan, where he also runs the website for their famous herbarium. He has done a lot of the work on the genus Russula in this country.

Selected Publications

Robert Lynn Shaffer (1957) "Volvariella in North America" in Mycologia 49 pp. 545 - 579

Robert Lynn Shaffer (1962) "The Subsection Compactae of Russula" in Brittonia 14 pp. 254 - 284

Robert Lynn Shaffer (1964) "The Subsection Lactariodeae of Russula" in Mycologia 56 pp. 202 - 231

Robert Lynn Shaffer (1968) Keys to Genera of Higher Fungi 2nd ed.
Published by the University of Michigan Biological Station

Robert Lynn Shaffer (1970) "Cuticular terminology in Russula (Agaricales)" in Brittonia 22 pp. 230 - 239

Robert Lynn Shaffer (1970) "Notes on Subsection Crassotunicatinae and other species of Russula" in Lloydia 33 pp. 49 - 96

Robert Lynn Shaffer (1972) "North American Russulas of Subsection Foetentinae" in Mycologia 64 pp. 1008 - 1053

Robert Lynn Shaffer (1975) "Some common north american species of Russula subsection Emeticinae" in Beihefte Nova Hedwigia (supplement to Nova Hedwigia) 51 pp. 207 - 238

Richard L. Homola & Robert Lynn Shaffer (1975) "A new Russula of the subsection Nigricantes from NE North America" in Mycologia 67 pp. 428 - 434

Robert Lynn Shaffer (1989) "Four white-capped species of Russula" in Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 49 pp. 348 - 354


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Species

Russula dissimulans R. L. Shaffer
Russula fragrantissima H. Romagnesi sensu R. L. Shaffer
Russula krombholzii R. L. Shaffer
Russula michiganensis R. L. Shaffer
Russula romagnesiana R. L. Shaffer
Russula xantho R. L. Shaffer
Volvariella hypopithys (Fries) R. L. Shaffer

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