Camille Torrend

Camille Torrend (1875-1961) was a Portuguese clergyman and mycologist. He was active in France, Portugal, Ireland and Brazil. He was a professor of botany and phytopathology at the Escola agricola da Baia..[1]

Torrend described the fungi Amauroderma aurantiacum, Adustomyces, and Lignosus. The genus Torrendia was named for him.

Works
  • 1908. Les myxomycètes. Étude des espèces connues jusqu’ici. Broteria 7: 5–177, tab., fig.
  • 1909. Notes de mycologie Portugaise. Résultats d’une excursion à la propriété royale de Villa Viçosa. Boletim de Sociedade Portuquesa de Ciencias Naturais 3: 3-7
  • 1912. Les Basidiomycetes des environs de Lisbonne et de la région de S. Fiel (Beira Baixa). Brotéria Ser. Botânica 10: 192-210
  • 1913. Troisième contribution pour l’étude des champignons de l’île de Madère. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 9: 65-181
  • 1913. Les Basidiomycetes des environs de Lisbonne et de la région de S. Fiel (Beira Baixa) [cont.]. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 11: 20-64
  • 1913. Les Basidiomycetes des environs de Lisbonne et de la région de S. Fiel (Beira Baixa) [concl.]. Brotéria Ser. Botânica 11: 54-98
  • 1940. As poliporaceas da Bahia e Estados limítrofes. Anales de la Reunión Sul-Amer. Bot. 1938 2: 325-341

Honors
Genus of fungi
Sorts of plants

References
  1. "Torrend, Camille (1875-1961)". Taxonomic Literature II. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  2. http://www.plantasdonordeste.org/herbarios/urm_her.html%5B%5D
  3. "Etimologia dei nomi botanici e micologici, Acta Plantarum". 19 June 2009. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009.
  4. An. Soc. Bot. Brasil, XXIII Congr. Nac. Bot. 125 1973 [1972 publ. 1973] (IK)
  5. Arq. Bot. Estado Sao Paulo n.s., form. maior, 3: 252 1962 (IK)


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