Marcelle Louise Fernande Le Gal Explained

Marcelle Louise Fernande Le Gal
Birth Date:	1895 2, mf=yes
Birth Place:	Amiens, France
Death Place:	Amiens, France
Nationality:	French
Field:	Botany, mycology, biochemical taxonomy
Work Institutions:	Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Alma Mater:	University of Paris, Columbia University

Marcelle Louise Fernande Le Gal (14 February 1895–23 June 1979) was a French mycologist and lichenologist, and a pioneer of taxonomy of the Pezizomycetes. ^[1]

Selected publications

Le Gal . Marcelle . Les discomycètes de Madagascar . Prodrome Flore Mycol. Madagascar . 1953 . 4 . 1 . 1–465 .
Le Gal . Marcelle . Les Aleuria et les Galactinia . Rev. Mycol. (Paris) . 1941 . 6 . 56–82 .
Le Gal . Marcelle . Le genre Leucoscypha . Boud. Bull. Jard. Bot. . 1957 . 27 . 719–728.
Le Gal . Marcelle . Le genre Melastiza . Bull. Soc. Mycol. France . 1958 . 74 . 149–154.

Awards

The fungal genera Marcelleina,^[2] Galiella,^[3] and Legaliana^[4] are named in her honor for her contributions to fungal taxonomy of the Pezizomycetes.

Notes and References

Richard P. Korf . Korf . Richard P. . Marcelle Le Gal: A reminisence . Mycotaxon . 1981 . 13. 1 . 1–4 .
van Brummelen . Johannes . A world-monograph of the genera Ascobolus and Saccobolus (Ascomycetes, Pezizales) . Persoonia Supplement . 1967 . 1. 1 . 1–260 .
Korf . R.P. . Two bulgarioid genera: Galiella and Plectania . Mycologia . 1957 . 49 . 1 . 107–111 . 10.2307/3755734 . 3755734.
van Vooren . Nicholas . Reinstatement of old taxa and publication of new genera for naming some lineages of the Pezizaceae (Ascomycota) . Ascomycete.org . 2020 . 12 . 4 . 179–192 . 10.25664/ART-0305 .