Harry D. Thiers

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Harry Delbert Thiers, born January 22nd 1919 in Fort McKavett, Texas, died August 8th 2000 in Ohio, was an American mycologist who studied and named a great many fungi of native to North America, particularly California. Thiers taught mycology at San Francisco State University for many years, and a number of notable mycologists active as of the 2000s began as his students. He comprehensively revised and expanded on the North American collection of boletes and named many new species.^[1]

Species authored include:

Russula xanthoporphyrea
Boletus pulcherrimus

The standard author abbreviation Thiers is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Thiers BM, Halling RE (2003). "Harry D. Thiers, 1919–2000" (PDF). Mycologia 95 (6): 1271–75.
^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.