Marcelle Louise Fernande Le Gal

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French mycologist

Marcelle Louise Fernande Le Gal
Born	(1895-02-14)February 14, 1895^[1] Amiens, France
Died	(1979-06-23)June 23, 1979^[1] Amiens, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	University of Paris, Columbia University
Scientific career
Fields	Botany, mycology, biochemical taxonomy
Institutions	Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

Marcelle Louise Fernande Le Gal (14 February 1895–23 June 1979) was a French mycologist and lichenologist, and a pioneer of taxonomy of the Pezizomycetes. ^[1]

Selected publications

Le Gal, Marcelle (1953). "Les discomycètes de Madagascar". Prodrome Flore Mycol. Madagascar. 4 (1): 1–465.
Le Gal, Marcelle (1941). "Les Aleuria et les Galactinia". Rev. Mycol. (Paris). 6: 56–82.
Le Gal, Marcelle (1957). "Le genre Leucoscypha". Boud. Bull. Jard. Bot. 27: 719–728.
Le Gal, Marcelle (1958). "Le genre Melastiza". Bull. Soc. Mycol. France. 74: 149–154.

Awards

The fungal genera Marcelleina,^[2] Galiella,^[3] and Legaliana^[4] are named in her honor for her contributions to fungal taxonomy of the Pezizomycetes.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Korf, Richard P. (1981). "Marcelle Le Gal: A reminisence". Mycotaxon. 13 (1): 1–4.
^ van Brummelen, Johannes (1967). "A world-monograph of the genera Ascobolus and Saccobolus (Ascomycetes, Pezizales)". Persoonia Supplement. 1 (1): 1–260.
^ Korf, R.P. (1957). "Two bulgarioid genera: Galiella and Plectania". Mycologia. 49 (1): 107–111. doi:10.2307/3755734. JSTOR 3755734.
^ van Vooren, Nicholas (2020). "Reinstatement of old taxa and publication of new genera for naming some lineages of the Pezizaceae (Ascomycota)". Ascomycete.org. 12 (4): 179–192. doi:10.25664/ART-0305.