Patricio Ponce de León

Patricio Ponce de León (August 26, 1915 – February 26, 2010) was a Cuban mycologist. He was a professor at Belen School in Havana and at the University of Havana, and later a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote a monograph on the worldwide species of the family Geastraceae, the earthstar fungi. Ponce de León died in Miami, Florida.^[1]

Taxa described

Acutocapillitium 1976
Acutocapillitium portoricense 1976
Bovista cacao 1975
Geastrum furfuraceum 1968
Geastrum victorinii 1946
Morganella stercoraria 1971

Selected publications

Ponce de León P. (1968). "A revision of the Family Geastraceae". Fieldiana: Botany 31 (14): 303–352.
Ponce de León P. (1969). "A new member of Morganella". Fieldiana: Botany 32 (6): 69–71.
Ponce de León P. (1970). "Revision of the genus Vascellum (Lycoperdaceae)". Fieldiana: Botany 32 (9):109–126.
Ponce de León P. (1971). "Revision of the genus Morganella (Lycoperdaceae)." Fieldiana: Botany 34 (3):27–44.
Ponce de León P. (1975). "Notes on Calvatia (Lycoperdaceae), I". Fieldiana: Botany 38 (1):1–3.
Ponce de León P. (1976). "Acutocapillitium, a new genus in the Lycoperdaceae". Fieldiana: Botany 38 (4):23–29.
Ponce de León P. (1976). "Notes on Calvatia (Lycoperdaceae), II : Calvatia cretacea (Berk.) Lloyd, an Arctic montane plant". Fieldiana: Botany 38 (3):15–22.
Singer R, Ponce de León P. (1983). "Sister Mary Cecilia Bodman, 1905–1982". Mycologia 75 (5):932–933. JSTOR 3792792
Smith CW, Ponce de León P. (1982). "Hawaiian geastroid fungi". Mycologia 74 (5):712–717. JSTOR 3792856
Singer R, Ponce de León P, Machol RE. (1984). "(42-44) Three Proposals to Amend the Code". Taxon 33 (4):745–47. JSTOR 1220807