Carlos Luis Spegazzini     (1858 - 1926)




Image of Carlos Luis Spegazzini from Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes
Carlos Luis Spegazzini

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Biography

studies at Ivrea, Turin and the Collegio Fascarini in Venice

1876 - 1879     attends the school for viniculture in Conegliano

1879     travels to Argentina, works as assistant to the natural science faculty at the university of Buenos Aires

1897 - 1912     professor of botany, phytopathology and agrochemistry at the university of La Plata

Spegazzini's Italian publications concerned the fungal parasites of grapevines, and some work on the macrofungi of northern Italy. In his subsequent work, he named a tremendous number of fungi, very quickly, in South America, provoking some bitter criticism from Lloyd. Whatever one may think of his work on fleshy fungi, he also did a lot of high-quality (and very early) work on the Laboulbeniales, collaborating long-distance with Roland Thaxter. As the vast majority of the fungi he named are tropical, none of his discoveries have yet appeared on this website.
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Sources

Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
      (Die Geschichte der Mykologie)


Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes


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Selected Publications

Carlos Luis Spegazzini (1881) "Fungi Argentini" in Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 12 pp. 13 - 30

Carlos Luis Spegazzini (1912) "Contribucion al estudio de las Laboulbeniomicetas Argentinas" (Contribution to the study of the Laboulbeniales of Argentina) in Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires
My source does not have an issue number for this; and the one article seems to have been the entire content of the bulletin

Carlos Luis Spegazzini (1915) "Laboulbeniali ritrovate nelle collezioni di alcuni musei italiani" (The Laboulbeniales rediscovered in the collections of other museums in Italy) in Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 26 pp. 451 - 511

Carlos Luis Spegazzini (1917) "Revisión de las Laboulbeniales Argentinas" (Revision of the Laboulbeniales of Argentina) in Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 29 pp. 445 - 688

Carlos Luis Spegazzini (1924) "Revisión de las Meliolas Argentinas" (Revision of the Meliolas of Argentina) in Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 32 pp. 339 - 393


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Genera

Volvariella Spegazzini

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