Marie Taylor (mycologist)

Grace Marie Taylor née Bulmer (28 April 1930 – 24 April 1999) was a New Zealand mycologist and botanist as well as a scientific illustrator. She described several new species of fungi and published and illustrated books on New Zealand fungi and plants.

Marie Taylor
Born
Grace Marie Bulmer

(1930-04-28)28 April 1930
New Zealand
Died24 April 1999(1999-04-24) (aged 68)
Known forContributions to mycology
Scientific career
FieldsMycology
Author abbrev. (botany)G.M.Taylor

Background and education

Taylor was born Grace Marie Bulmer in 1930.[1] She attended New Plymouth Girls' High before going on to study at Victoria University of Wellington.[2] Taylor gained a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science with honours studying botany.[2] She then went on to attend the Auckland Teachers Training College before beginning work as a teacher at Wellington Girls' College.[2]

Researches in mycology

Taylor began undertaking lab demonstration work at Victoria University of Wellington which in turn led to her becoming a lecturer in botany at that University.[1] Her professional botany career was then interrupted with her marriage and the subsequent birth of her children.[2] She lived with her family in Oamaru and undertook numerous field trips from and around that location.[1] During this time she authored a key to the genus Cosprosma.[1] In 1971 Taylor moved to Auckland and was employed by the University of Auckland as a senior tutor teaching botany.[2] She became a member of the Auckland Botanical Society.[1] She continued to undertake research and to draw the species she was studying. It was around this time that Taylor published the first of her books on New Zealand fungi which she herself illustrated, Mushrooms and Toadstools in New Zealand.[2] She would go on to publish another book that she also illustrated Mushrooms and Toadstools in 1981. During her career Taylor would describe at least 21 species that were new to science.[1] Her final work Meanings and Origins of Botanical Names of New Zealand Plants was published in 2002 after her death. Taylor died on 24 April 1999.[3]

Taylor created an historically important private collection of New Zealand fungi.[4] This was incorporated with the collections of Greta Stevenson and Barbara Segedin to form the basis of the New Zealand Fungarium.[4]

In 2017, Taylor was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating women's contribution to knowledge in New Zealand.[5]

Eponymous taxa

Selected works

See also

References
  1. Unknown (2002). "Biography". In Taylor, Marie (ed.). Meanings and origins of botanical names of New Zealand plants. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-9583447-2-2. ISSN 0112-1332. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  2. Harvey, Catherine (September 1999). "Grace Marie Taylor - nee Bulmer (1930-1999)" (PDF). New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter. 57: 7–8.
  3. "Grace Marie Taylor - nee Bulmer (1930-1999)" (PDF). New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter. 56: 11. June 1999.
  4. "Historically important mushroom collections added to the New Zealand Fungal Herbarium". www.landcareresearch.co.nz. Maanaki Whenua Landcare Research Ltd. Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  5. "Marie Taylor". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  6. Morris, Rod. "New Zealand Fungi - Mycena mariae". www.rodmorris.co.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  7. Horak, E. (1999). "New Genera of Agaricales (Basidiomycota). 1. Rapacea gen. nov". Kew Bulletin. 54 (3): 789–794. doi:10.2307/4110877. JSTOR 4110877.
  8. International Plant Names Index.  G.M.Taylor.
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