Patricio Ponce de León
Patricio Ponce de León was a Cuban mycologist. He was a professor at Belen School in Havana and at the University of Havana, and later a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote a monograph on the worldwide species of the family Geastraceae, the earthstar fungi. Ponce de León died in Miami, Florida.
Taxa described
- Acutocapillitium 1976
- Acutocapillitium portoricense 1976
- Bovista cacao 1975
- Geastrum furfuraceum 1968
- Geastrum victorinii 1946
- Morganella stercoraria 1971
Selected publications
- Ponce de León P.. Fieldiana: Botany 31 : 303–352.
- Ponce de León P.. Fieldiana: Botany 32 : 69–71.
- Ponce de León P.. Fieldiana: Botany 32 :109–126.
- Ponce de León P.. Fieldiana: Botany 34 :27–44.
- Ponce de León P.. Fieldiana: Botany 38 :1–3.
- Ponce de León P.. Fieldiana: Botany 38 :23–29.
- Ponce de León P.. Fieldiana: Botany 38 :15–22.
- Singer R, Ponce de León P.. "Sister Mary Cecilia Bodman, 1905–1982". Mycologia 75 :932–933.
- Smith CW, Ponce de León P.. "Hawaiian geastroid fungi". Mycologia 74 :712–717.
- Singer R, Ponce de León P, Machol RE.. " Three Proposals to Amend the Code". Taxon 33 :745–47.