Camille Torrend

Camille Torrend (1875-1961) was a Portuguese clergyman and mycologist. He was active in France, Portugal, Ireland and Brazil. He was a professor of botany and phytopathology at the Imperial Agricultural School of Bahia.[1] Torrend edited the exsiccata Fungi selecti exsiccati.[2]

Torrend described the fungi genera of; Amauroderma aurantiacum, Adustomyces, and Lignosus. The fungal genera of Torrendia (the family Amanitaceae) and Torrendiella (in the family Sclerotiniaceae) were both named after him.[3]

  1. ^ Torrend, Camille (1875-1961). Vol. 6. 1986. ISBN 9789031302246. Retrieved 15 February 2014. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Fungi selecti exsiccati: IndExs ExsiccataID=906695603". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
  3. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.