George Lorenzo Zundel

George Lorenzo Ingram Zundel (Brigham City, Utah, December 23, 1885 – March 10, 1950) was an American mycologist, phycologist, and plant pathologist.

Biography[]

He studied at Brigham Young University in 1909, and afterwards at the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University), where in 1911, he received a degree. He taught botany at the university, and middle school biology in Brigham City. In 1913 he moved to New York and two years later received a M.Sc. from Cornell University. In 1926 he began studying at Yale University; where he defended a doctoral thesis, dedicated to Ustilaginomycetes. From 1928-1946, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania, and then retired for health reasons. Zundel died March 10, 1950 in Brigham City.

Some publications[]

The standard author abbreviation Zundel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

• 1937. Raspberry Disease Control

Books[]

• 1939. (Ustilaginales): Additions and Corrections. North American Flora 7, splits 14. With John Hendley Barnhart. Ed. New York Botanical Garden, 75 pp.
• 1938. The Ustilaginales of South Africa
• 1938. To New Smut from Southern Chile
• 1937. Miscellaneous Notice on the Ustilaginales

Honors[]

Eponymy[]

Genus

• Zundeliomyces Vánky, 1987
• Thirum. & Naras., 1952 without. Dermatosorus Sawada, 1949

Species

• Cif., 1933 without. Sporisorium tembuti (Henn. & Pole-Evans) Vánky, 2007
• Hirschh., 1986, nom. inval.
• Vánky, 1995
• Hirschh., 1943

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