Robert Kühner

Robert Kühner was a French mycologist most notable for reviewing many forms of agaric genera.
He studied at the Sorbonne, afterwards from 1921 until 1932, he was working as a high school teacher in Lille. Then, from 1938 until 1973, he was associated with the Faculty of Sciences at Lyon.
He was honoured in 1946, with Kuehneromyces, which is a genus of fungi in the family Strophariaceae.

Selected works

Contribution à l'étude des hyménomycètes et spécialement des agaricacés, 1926 - Contribution to the study of Hymenomycetes and especially of Agaricales. Le genre Galera Quélet, 1935 - The genus Galera Quélet.Le genre Mycena Étude cytologique et systématique des espèces d'Europe et d'Amérique du Nord, 1938 - The genus Mycena, cytological and systematic studies of species native to Europe and North America.Flore analytique des champignons supérieurs , 1953 - Analysis of major mushrooms.Compléments à la "Flore analytique, 1954 - Additions to the "Flora analytique". Agaricales de la zone alpine: Amanitacées, 1972 - Agaricales of the Alpine zone: Amanitaceae.