Paul Sydow

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Paul Sydow (1851, Kallies – 1925, Sophienstädt near Ruhlsdorf) [1] was a German mycologist and lichenologist, father of Hans Sydow (1879–1946).

He worked as a schoolmaster in Berlin. With his son, Hans, he authored works involving descriptions of new species of ascomycetes, rusts and smuts.[2]

Works

  • Paul Sydow: Die Flechten Deutschlands : Anleitung zur Kenntnis und Bestimmung der deutschen Flechten, 1887.
  • Paul and Hans Sydow: Monographia Uredinearum : seu specierum omnium ad hunc usque diem cognitarum descriptio et adumbratio systematica, 1904-1924.[3]
  • Gustav Lindau and Paul Sydow: Thesaurus literaturae mycologicae et lichenologicae. (1908–1917, 5 volumes).

He also made contributions to Volume 16 of Pier Andrea Saccardo's Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum.[4]

The standard author abbreviation P. Syd. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References

  1. ↑ UNI Goettingen Department of Systematic Botany
  2. ↑ Google Books Dictionary of the Fungi, edited by P.M. Kirk, P.F. Cannon, D.W. Minter, J.A. Stalpers
  3. ↑ IDREF.fr (bibliography)
  4. ↑ WorldCat Identities (publications)
  5. ↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=P.+Syd. "Author Query for 'P. Syd.'"]. International Plant Names Index. 

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