Ascobolus Perplexans
''Ascobolus'' is a genus of fungi in the Ascobolaceae family. The genus has a widespread distribution, and contains an estimated 61 species, most of which are coprophilous. The genus was circumscribed by Christian Hendrik Persoon in 1796. Species Species include: *''Ascobolus albidus'' *''Ascobolus americanus'' *'' Ascobolus asininus'' *''Ascobolus barbatus'' *'' Ascobolus behnitziensis'' *'' Ascobolus bistisii'' *''Ascobolus brantophilus'' *''Ascobolus brassicae'' *''Ascobolus brunneus'' *''Ascobolus calesco'' *''Ascobolus carbonarius'' *''Ascobolus carletonii'' *''Ascobolus cervinus'' *''Ascobolus ciliatus'' *''Ascobolus crenulatus'' *''Ascobolus crosslandii'' *''Ascobolus dadei'' *''Ascobolus degluptus'' *''Ascobolus denudatus'' *''Ascobolus egyptiacus'' *''Ascobolus elegans'' *'' Ascobolus epimyces'' *''Ascobolus equinus'' *''Ascobolus foliicola'' *'' Ascobolus geophilus'' *'' Ascobolus hansenii'' *''Ascobolus hawaiiensis'' *''Ascobolus immersus'' *''Ascobolus leveillei'' * ...
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Christian Hendrik Persoon
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an immigrant Pomeranian father and Dutch mother. His mother died soon after he was born; at the age of thirteen his father (who died a year later) sent him to Europe for his education. Education Initially studying theology at Halle, at age 22 (in 1784) Persoon switched to medicine at Leiden and Göttingen. He received a doctorate from the "Kaiserlich-Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher" in 1799. Later years He moved to Paris in 1802, where he spent the rest of his life, renting an upper floor of a house in a poor part of town. He was appare