Patricio Ponce de León

Patricio Ponce de León (August 26, 1915 – February 26, 2010) was a Cuban mycologist. He was a professor at Belen School in Havana and at the University of Havana, and later a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote a monograph on the worldwide species of the family Geastraceae, the earthstar fungi. Ponce de León died in Miami, Florida.[1]

Taxa described

  • Acutocapillitium 1976
  • Acutocapillitium portoricense 1976
  • Bovista cacao 1975
  • Geastrum furfuraceum 1968
  • Geastrum victorinii 1946
  • Morganella stercoraria 1971

Selected publications

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