Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German mycologist
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Place of Birth: Reichelsheim, Hesse, Germany
About Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel
- Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel (3 February 1821, Reichelsheim – 8 May 1876, Vienna) was a German botanist who worked largely on fungi. From 1836 to 1852 he worked as an apothecary, afterwards deriving income from a vineyard he owned in Oestrich im Rheingau.The species epithet in the binomen Botryotinia fuckeliana, a plant pathogen and the causal agent of gray mold disease, was named by mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary in honor of him.
- Fuckel was the taxonomic authority of the mycological genera Aleuria, Phyllachora (Nitschke ex Fuckel), Plectania and Sclerotinia.
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