Henri Romagnesi

Henri Charles Louis Romagnesi (* February 7, 1912, † by 18 January 1999) was an eminent French mycologist. In his honor, awarded the French Mycological Society annual Romagnesi the price. The focus of his research was to edit the Rötlinge ( Entoloma ) and russulas ( Russula ). His botanical and mycological author abbreviation is " Romagn. ".

Services

Romagnesi became known through his comprehensive monograph on the agaric genus Entoloma or Rhodophyllus, what was her name in the early 20th century.

His second major research focus was the large genus of russulas. In 1967 his well-known monograph Täublings " Les Russules d'Europe et d' Afrique du Nord ", in which he writable almost all the then known European Täublingsarten detail. With his work, he revolutionized the then Russula methodology and created a system that is the basis of all modern Täublings classification systems today. Many describe Täublingsarten were valid for the first time in this work of his.

Another important work was the " Flore Analytique of mushrooms Supérieurs ", which he published along with Robert Kuhner. For a long time this book was the most important mycological reference book in French.

Works

• Henri Romagnesi (eds. ): Les Russules d'Europe et d' Afrique du Nord. Bordas, Paris 1967.

• Henri Romagnesi (ed.): Exotic Mushrooms. Sterling Publishing Company, 1971, ISBN 9,780,806,939,162th

• Robert Kuhner et Henri Romagnesi (ed.): Flore Analytique of supérieurs mushrooms ( agarics, bolets, chanterelles ) comprenant les espèces de l'Europe occidentale et centrale ainsi que la plupart de celles de l' Algérie et du Maroc. Masson, Paris, 1953.