Amédée Galzin
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Not to be confused with Galzin, a brand name of the medication zinc acetate used to treat Wilson’s disease.
Amédée Galzin (1 May 1853, Parrinet, Aveyron – 14 February 1925, Parrinet) was a French veterinarian and mycologist.
In 1878 he obtained his degree from the veterinary college in Toulouse. From 1879 to 1905, he served as a military veterinarian, becoming a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1899.[1]
With Abbé Hubert Bourdot, he was co-author of a series of publications (11 parts, 1909 to 1925) involving Hymenomycetes native to France; all parts being published in the Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France. With Bourdot, he also wrote Heterobasidiae nondum descriptae (Descriptions of a few jelly fungi).[2] [3]
With Bourdot, he was the taxonomic authority of the fungi genus Oxyporus ,[4] as well as of numerous mycological species.
The standard author abbreviation Galzin is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
References
[edit ]- ^ Aphyllo.net (biography)
- ^ Mushroom the Journal Selected Publications
- ^ Cybertruffle Cyberliber: an Electronic Library for Mycology
- ^ MycoBank Oxyporus
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Galzin.