Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a Cape Colony mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Persoon...

pioneering 18th and 19th century taxonomical works of Carl Linnaeus, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Elias Magnus Fries, fungi have been classified according...

Scleroderma cepa, commonly known as the smooth earthball, is an ectomycorrhizal fungus used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture. It is...

Calvatia gigantea, commonly known in English as the giant puffball, is a puffball mushroom commonly found in meadows, fields, and deciduous forests in...

Scleroderma citrinum, commonly known as the common earthball, pigskin poison puffball, or common earth ball, is a species of earthball fungus found in...

Persoon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836), German mycologist Delfine Persoon (born 1985), Belgian...

current meaning by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1797. Under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Persoon's concept of Amanita, with Amanita...

agaric fungus in the family Tubariaceae. It was first described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1801, as a species of Agaricus. French mycologist Claude-Casimir...

Lycoperdon cinereum by August Johann Georg Karl Batsch in 1783; Christiaan Hendrik Persoon transferred it to Physarum in 1794. "Physarum cinereum (Batsch)...

as the Cotyledon pinnata. Subsequently, the Paris naturalist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon reclassified it in the Kalanchoe (calling it Calanchoe pinnata...