Claude Casimir Gillet (19 May 1806 in Dormans, department of Marne – 1 September 1896 in Alençon), was a French botanist and mycologist. He initially trained as a medical doctor and veterinarian.
As a veterinarian, he worked for four years in Africa. Around 1853 he developed a passion for mycology, subsequently publishing a number of works on the subject. In 1867 he became a corresponding member of the Société Linnéenne de Normandie.
Gillet was the taxonomic authority of the genera Tubaria (initially named a subgenus of Agaricus by Worthington George Smith) and Microglossum.
He was honoured in 1899, when botanists P.A.Saccardo & P.Sydow published Gilletiella, which is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes.
Publications
- Claude-Casimir Gillet, (1893) Agaricinées
- Claude-Casimir Gillet, (1879) Les discomycètes, 230 pp
- Gillet CG (1874) Les Hyménomycètes 828pp, (Full view available on google books)
- Claude-Casimir Gillet, Jean-Henri Magne, (1868) Nouvelle flore française 704pp, (Full view available on google books)
See also
References
- IDREF.fr (bibliography)
- Gillet, Champignons France - AREHN Archived 2016-08-17 at the Wayback Machine Les champignons qui croissent en France : description et iconographie - Claude Casimir Gillet, 1878
- Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming (biographical information)
- Tubaria (W.G. Sm.) Gillet 1876". MycoBank. International Mycological Association
- "Gilletiella P.A.Saccardo & P.Sydow, 1899". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- International Plant Names Index. Gillet.
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