Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a South African mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Persoon...

pioneering 18th and 19th century taxonomical works of Carl Linnaeus, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Elias Magnus Fries, fungi have been classified according...

Lycoperdon cinereum by August Johann Georg Karl Batsch in 1783; Christiaan Hendrik Persoon transferred it to Physarum in 1794. "Physarum cinereum (Batsch)...

Persoon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836), German mycologist Delfine Persoon (born 1985), Belgian...

Xylaria polymorpha, commonly known as dead man's fingers, is a cosmopolitan saprobic fungus. It is characterized by its elongated upright, clavate, or...

as the Cotyledon pinnata. Subsequently, the Paris naturalist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon reclassified it in the Kalanchoe (calling it Calanchoe pinnata...

agaric fungus in the family Tubariaceae. It was first described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1801 as a species of Agaricus. French mycologist Claude-Casimir...

Ganoderma applanatum (the artist's bracket, artist's conk, artist's fungus or bear bread) is a bracket fungus with a cosmopolitan distribution. Ganoderma...

Scleroderma citrinum, commonly known as the common earthball, pigskin poison puffball, or common earth ball, is the most common species of earthball fungus...

Panaeolus foenisecii, commonly called the mower's mushroom, haymaker, haymaker's panaeolus, or brown hay mushroom, is a very common and widely distributed...