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Gastón Guzmán Huerta (August 26, 1932 – January 12, 2016) was a Mexican mycologist and anthropologist.

Career

He was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, in 1932. His interest in mycology began in 1955 when as a graduate student he decided to update his school's (National Polytechnic Institute) poorly kept collection of fungi. During his early field work he found a large assortment of species about which little was known at the time. This inspired him to choose fungi as the topic of his professional thesis.

A co-founder and former president of the Mexican Mycological Society (1965), he was also president of the Latin American Mycological Association (2000–2002), founded by him in La Habana, Cuba, in 1990. Guzmán held an emeritus research chair at the Ecological Institute of Xalapa where he founded the Department and Herbarium of Fungi which now has more than 50,000 specimens. In 1955 he founded the Mycological Herbarium at the National School of Biological Sciences (ENCB) in Mexico City. ENCB now has more than 100,000 specimens, the most sizable collection in Mexico.

Personal life

Guzmán's daughter, Laura Guzmán Dávalos, is also a prominent mycologist. She founded the Mycology Department at the University of Guadalajara.

Guzmán died of a heart attack in Guadalajara, Mexico on January 12, 2016 at the age of 83.

This author is usually abbreviated Guzmán when citing a botanical name.

Eponymy

Several fungus species have been named in Guzmán's honor:

  • Crepidotus guzmanii Singer 1973
  • Fistulina guzmanii Brusis 1973
  • Marasmiellus guzmanii Singer 1973
  • Pseudohiatula guzmaniana Singer 1973
  • Marasmius guzmanianus Singer 1976
  • Neotremella guzmanii Lowy 1979
  • Psilocybe guzmanii Natarajan & Raman 1983
  • Amanita guzmanii Cifuentes, Villegas & G.Santiago 1984
  • Entoloma guzmanii Courtec. 1986
  • Antromycopsis guzmanii Stalpers, Seifert & Samson 1991
  • Phylloporus guzmanii Montoya & Bandala 1991
  • Pseudocyphellaria guzmanii D.J.Galloway 1992
  • Rhizopogon guzmanii Trappe & Cázares 1992
  • Camillea guzmanii F.San Martín & J.D.Rogers 1993
  • Coralloderma guzmanii A.L.Welden 1993
  • Phaeocollybia guzmanii Bandala & Montoya 1994
  • Suillus guzmanii G.Moreno, Bandala & Montoya 1997
  • Tuber guzmanii Trappe & Cázares 2006
  • Calvatia guzmanii C.R.Alves & Cortez 2012
  • Cora guzmaniana Moncada, R.-E.Pérez & Lücking 2019

Selected publications

  • Guzmán, G. "Les champignons sacrés du Mexique." In: Riedlinger, T.J. (Ed.) The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson. Ethnomycological Studies No. 11, pp. 83–110. Dioscorides Press, Portland, OR (1990).
  • Guzmán, G. “Los Nombres de los Hongos y lo Relacionado con Ellos en America Latina.” Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (1997).
  • Guzman, G. "Inventorying the fungi of Mexico." Biodiversity and Conservation 7: 365-384 (1997).
  • Guzmán, G. et al. “Una Iglesia Dedicada al Culto de un Hongo, “Nuestro Señor del Honguito,” en Chignahuapan, Puebla. Boletín de la Sociedad Mexicana de Micología 9:137–147 (1975).
  • Guzmán, G. "Los Hongos de El Edén, Quintana Roo: Introducción a la Micobiota Tropical de México". Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, México. 316p. 2003.
  • Guzmán, G., M. Piepenbring, "Los Hongos de Panamá. Introducción a la identificación de los macroscópicos". Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, 372 pp. 2011.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Gastón Guzmán para niños

  • List of mycologists
  • Category:Taxa named by Gastón Guzmán
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