Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel

Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel was a German botanist who worked largely on fungi.
He worked as an apothecary from 1836 to 1852, afterwards deriving income from a vineyard he owned in Oestrich im Rheingau.
The species epithet in the binomen Botryotinia fuckeliana, a plant pathogen and the causal agent of gray mold disease, was named by mycologist Heinrich [Anton de Bary] in honor of him. Fuckel was the taxonomic authority of the mycological genera Aleuria, Phyllachora, Plectania and Sclerotinia.

Works

His exsiccata of Rhineland fungi, "Fungi rhenani exsiccati", contained a number of type specimens and taxonomic information on novelties of taxa that he proclaimed .

He was also the author of:

"Enumeratio Fungorum Nassoviae", Series I,, an exsiccata-like series with Catalog of fungi from Nassau.
"Symbolae mycologicae, Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Rheinischen Pilze", ; three supplements - Contributions to the knowledge of Rhenish mushrooms.

Formerly in nations that did not speak English, the abbreviation Fuck. was sometimes used.