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Lexemuel Ray Hesler

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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Mycologist

Fields
  
Mycology

Name
  
Lexemuel Hesler

Author abbrev. (botany)
  
Hesler

Education
  
Cornell University

Doctoral advisor
  
Mason B. Thomas

Died
  
November 20, 1977


Born
  
February 20, 1888Veedersburg, Indiana (
1888-02-20
)

Institutions
  
University of Tennessee

Known for
  
Taxonomy of Agarics of the Southern Appalachians

Books
  
North American Species of Crepidotus

Parents
  
Laura Iris Hesler, Clinton F. Hesler

Residence
  
United States of America

Lexemuel Ray Hesler (20 February 1888 – 20 November 1977) was an American mycologist. He was the son of Clinton F. Hesler and Laura Iris (née Youngblood). He obtained his B. A. degree with Wabash College in 1911 and his Ph.D. at the University of Cornell in 1914.

Contents

Selected publications

  • Hesler LR. (1929) "A preliminary report on polypores of eastern Tennessee", Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 4: 3–10
  • Hesler LR. (1936) "Notes on southern Appalachian fungi", Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 6: 107–122
  • Hesler LR. (1937) "Notes on southern Appalachian fungi: II.", Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 12: 239–254
  • Hesler LR. (1937) "A preliminary list of the fungi of the Great Smoky Mountains", Castanea 2: 45–58
  • Hesler LR. (1957) "Notes on southeastern Agaricales: I.", Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 32: 298–307
  • Hesler LR. (1960) "A study of Russula types: ", Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 21: 1–59
  • Hesler LR. (1961) "A study of Julius Schaeffer's Russulas", Lloydia 24: 182–198
  • Hesler LR. (1961) "A Study of Russula types: 2", Mycologia 53: 605–625
  • Hesler LR, Smith AH. (1963) North American Species of Hygrophorus
  • Hesler LR, Smith AH. (1965) North American species of Crepidotus
  • Hesler LR. (1967) Entoloma in Southeastern North America
  • Smith AH, Hesler LR. (1968) The North American species of Pholiota
  • Hesler LR. (1969) North American species of Gymnopilus
  • Hesler LR, Smith AH. (1979) North American Species of Lactarius

    • Species named

  • Gymnopilus luteus (Peck) Hesler
  • Gymnopilus terrestris Hesler
  • Gymnopilus ventricosus (Earle) Hesler
  • Hygrophorus bakerensis A.H. Smith & Hesler
  • Hygrophorus flavescens (Kauffman) A.H. Smith & Hesler
  • Hygrophorus marginatus var. olivasceus A.H. Smith & Hesler
  • Hygrophorus subaustralis A.H. Smith & Hesler, now Albomagister subaustralis (A.H. Smith & Hesler) Sánchez-García, Birkebak & Matheny
  • Hygrophorus subsalmonius A.H. Smith & Hesler
  • Lactarius argillaceifolius A.H. Smith & Hesler
  • Lactarius cinereus A.H. Smith & Hesler
  • Lactarius quietus Hesler & A. H. Smith
  • Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) Hesler & A.H. Smith
  • Pholiota veris (A.H. Smith & Singer) Hesler & A.H. Smith

    • References

    Lexemuel Ray Hesler Wikipedia
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