Camille Torrend
{{Short description|Portuguese botanist and mycologist (1875–1961)}}
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.{{cite book|title=Torrend, Camille (1875-1961)|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212441|work=Taxonomic Literature II|year=1986 |volume=6 |isbn=9789031302246 |accessdate=15 February 2014}} Torrend edited the exsiccata Fungi selecti exsiccati.{{cite web |title=Fungi selecti exsiccati: IndExs ExsiccataID=906695603 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=906695603 |access-date=21 September 2024}}
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.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}
Works
- 1908. Les myxomycètes. Étude des espèces connues jusqu’ici. Broteria 7: 5–177, tab., fig.
- 1909. Notes de mycologie Portugaise. Résultats d’une excursion à la propriété royale de Villa Viçosa. Boletim de Sociedade Portuquesa de Ciencias Naturais 3: 3-7
- 1912. Les Basidiomycetes des environs de Lisbonne et de la région de S. Fiel (Beira Baixa). Brotéria Ser. Botânica 10: 192-210
- 1913. Troisième contribution pour l’étude des champignons de l’île de Madère. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 9: 65-181
- 1913. Les Basidiomycetes des environs de Lisbonne et de la région de S. Fiel (Beira Baixa) [cont.]. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 11: 20-64
- 1913. Les Basidiomycetes des environs de Lisbonne et de la région de S. Fiel (Beira Baixa) [concl.]. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 11: 54-98
- 1940. As poliporaceas da Bahia e Estados limítrofes. Anales de la Reunión Sul-Amer. Bot. 1938 2: 325-341
Honors
- El Herbario del Departamento de Micología, from Universidad Federal de Pernambuco{{cite web |url=http://www.plantasdonordeste.org/herbarios/urm_her.html |title=Untitled Document |website=www.plantasdonordeste.org |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120140837/http://www.plantasdonordeste.org/herbarios/urm_her.html |archive-date=20 November 2008 |url-status=dead}}
- Torrendia (1902),{{cite web|url=http://actanaturae.actafungorum.org/botanica/etimologia.php?nome=T|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619195208/http://actanaturae.actafungorum.org/botanica/etimologia.php?nome=T|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 June 2009|title=Etimologia dei nomi botanici e micologici, Acta Plantarum|date=19 June 2009}}
- Torrendiella (1911),{{cite journal |vauthors=((Boudier JLÉ)), Torrend C |title=Discomycètes nouveaux de Portugal |journal=Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France |year=1911 |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=127–136 |language=French}}
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