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...

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

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

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

Thunberg. The third edition (counted as the 15th) was edited by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. Although the fourth edition, purportedly the 16th edition of...

several species. Morchella Dill. ex Pers. : Fr. was typified by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1794, with Morchella esculenta designated as the type species...

peels strewn on the ground, giving this species its common name. Christiaan Hendrik Persoon described the orange peel as Peziza aurantia in 1800. The specific...

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...