Sanford Myron Zeller

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Sanford Myron Zeller
Born(1885-10-19)October 19, 1885
Coldwater, Michigan
DiedNovember 4, 1948(1948-11-04) (aged 63)
Scientific career
FieldsMycology, plant pathology

Sanford Myron Zeller (19 October 1885 – 4 November 1948) was an American mycologist. Born in Coldwater, Michigan, Zeller was educated at Lawrence College in Wisconsin, then Greenville College in Illinois, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1909.[1] He earned his doctorate in botany in 1917 at Washington University in St. Louis, and two years later started a 29-year stint as a plant pathologist and professor at the in Corvallis, Oregon. He published over 150 scientific papers during his career. Zeller specialized in the gasteroid fungi. Independently, he described 3 orders, 9 families, 7 genera, 81 species, and published 29 new names and combinations, as well as 3 genera, 62 species, and 59 combinations in collaborations with other scientists.[2] Zeller was the associate editor of the scientific journal Phytopathology from 1924 to 1930.

Eponymous taxa[]

  • Burt 1926
  • D.E. Stuntz & A.H.Sm. 1949
  • Boletellus zelleri (Murrill) Singer, Snell & E.A.Dick 1960
  • Boletus zelleri (Murrill) Murrill 1912
  • Murrill 1912
  • Burt 1926
  • Singer & A.H.Sm. 1960
  • Lloyd 1920
  • Seaver 1945
  • (Singer & A.H.Sm.) Trappe, T.Lebel & Castellano 2002
  • Polyporus zelleri Murrill 1915
  • A.H.Sm. 1966
  • Burl. 1936
  • (D.E.Stuntz & A.H.Sm.) Ovrebo & Tylutki 1975
  • (Murrill) Snell 1944
  • Zelleromyces Singer & A.H.Sm. 1960
The standard author abbreviation Zeller is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Gilkey HM. (1949). "Sanford Myron Zeller: October 19, 1884-November 4, 1948". Mycologia. 41 (4): 357–68. JSTOR 3755229.
  2. ^ "Sanford Myron Zeller - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
  3. ^ IPNI.  Zeller.
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