Edward Angus Burt

Edward Angus Burt (April 9, 1859 – April 27, 1939) was an American mycologist and an authority on the resupinate (flat on the substrate) fungus family Thelephoraceae.[1][2] He received his M.A. in 1894 and PhD. in 1895, both from Harvard University under William G. Farlow and Roland Thaxter.[2] He became a Professor of Natural History at Middlebury College in 1895, then both a Professor of Botany at the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis, and a mycologist for the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1913.[2] He also worked on a systematic description of basidiomycetes such as Merulius and fungi from Vermont, Siberia, and Java.[2]

Edward Angus Burt
Born(1859-04-09)April 9, 1859
DiedApril 27, 1939(1939-04-27) (aged 80)

The Septobasidium species S. burtii is named in his honor.[3][4]

References
  1. Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University, Farlow Herbarium
  2. EDWARD ANGUS BURT PAPERS (1895-1926), New York Botanical Gardens
  3. Septobasidium burtii, MycoBank
  4. Henk, D. A.; Vilgalys, R. (2007). "Molecular phylogeny suggests a single origin of insect symbiosis in the Pucciniomycetes with support for some relationships within the genus Septobasidium". American Journal of Botany. 94 (9): 1515–1526. doi:10.3732/ajb.94.9.1515. PMID 21636518.
  5. International Plant Names Index.  Burt.


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