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Bruce Alexander Fuhrer OAM is an Australian mycologist and fungi photographer. His fungi photographic collection numbers more than 3000 species. Bruce began his career as a photographer in Portland, Victoria, Australia in 1955. In 1957 he formed Portland Camera Club and was its President for 6 years. It was during this period that he developed his interest in Natural History and joined the Portland Field Naturalists' Club. He was an inaugural member of the Mt Richmond National Park Management Committee formed in 1960. Bruce joined the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) as well as the Field Naturalists Club of Ringwood in the sixties and become Chairman of the Botany Group for 3 years. He also served on the FNCV Council between 1964 and 1968. Not long after joining the Ringwood Field Naturalists Club Inc., he established the Ringwood Junior Field Naturalist Club Inc. and was President for sixteen years of their existence. He later established The Basin Junior Field Naturalist' Club (now the Wildlife Observers Club Inc.) Bruce contributed substantial photographs in the first comprehensive illustrative guide to Victorian Flora – “Flowers and Plants of Victoria” in 1968. Already acknowledged as a botanist and photographer, he was invited to judge at the 1970, 1974 and 1978 Victorian Photoflora Competitions. Bruce’s first publication was in 1978 – A Field Guide to the Common Genera of Gilled Fungi in Australia.

Bruce has written many books on Australian fungi, including a Comprehensive Field Guide to Australian Fungi. He worked for 25 years in the school of Biology at Monash University. Species authored include Rozites armeniacovelatus (now Cortinarius armeniacovelatus).For this work at Monash University, he received an Honorary Master of Science degree in 1988. Bruce was a Senior Technical Officer, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at Monash University for the years 1972 to 1996. There are three species of fungi named after Bruce Fuhrer. They are Calostoma fuhreri (Desert Prettymouth), Hygrocybe fuhreri and Hypoxylon fuhreri.

Publications

Books authored by Bruce, or in collaboration with others:

• 2010 A Field Guide to Australian Fungi
• 2003 Field Guide to the Mosses and Allied Plants of Southern Australia, David Meagher and Bruce Fuhrer (Flora of Australia Supplementary Series)
• 2002 Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia, Margaret G. Corrick and Bruce A. Fuhrer
• 2001 Australian Fungi: A Field Companion
• 2001 Wildflowers of Victoria, Margaret G. Corrick and Bruce A. Fuhrer
• 1992 Rainforest Fungi of Tasmania and SE Australia, Bruce A. Fuhrer and Richard Robinson
• 1988 Seaweeds of Australia, text edited by I.G. Christianson, M.N. Clayton and B.M. Allender
• 1985 A Field Companion To Australian Fungi
• 1984 A Field Guide to The Common Genera Of Gilled Fungi In Australia (Mushrooms and Toadstools) Martina Cole, Bruce Fuhrer and Albert Holland

Awards

• 2011 Order of Australia Medal OAM
• 2005 Life member of Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV)
• 1995-1998 Honorary Associate, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
• 1995 Honorary Research Associate, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Monash University
• 1989 Andrew Gibson Nature Medallion from the Australian Photographic Society Inc.
• 1988 Honorary Master of Science degree, Monash University
• 1976 Life member of Ringwood Field Naturalists Club Inc.

References

1. Fuhrer B (2005). A Field Guide to Australian Fungi. Melbourne: Bloomings Books. ISBN 1-876473-51-7.
2. International Plant Names Index.  Fuhrer.

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