Claude Casimir Gillet (19 May 1806 in Dormans, department of Marne – 1 September 1896 in Alençon), was a French botanist and mycologist.IDREF.fr (bibliography) He initially trained as a medical doctor and veterinarian.
As a veterinarian, he worked for four years in Africa. Around 1853 he developed a passion for mycology, subsequently publishing a number of works on the subject. In 1867 he became a corresponding member of the Société Linnéenne de Normandie.Gillet, Champignons France - AREHN Les champignons qui croissent en France : description et iconographie - Claude Casimir Gillet, 1878
Gillet was the taxonomic authority of the genera Tubaria (initially named a subgenus of Agaricus by Worthington George Smith) and Microglossum. Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming (biographical information)Tubaria (W.G. Sm.) Gillet 1876". MycoBank. International Mycological Association
He was honoured in 1899, when botanists P.A.Saccardo & P.Sydow published Gilletiella, which is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes.
Publications Claude-Casimir Gillet, (1893) Agaricinées Claude-Casimir Gillet, (1879) Les discomycètes, 230 pp Gillet CG (1874) Les Hyménomycètes 828pp, (Full view available on google books) Claude-Casimir Gillet, Jean-Henri Magne, (1868) Nouvelle flore française 704pp, (Full view available on google books)
See also :Category:Taxa named by Claude Casimir Gillet
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