© Jens H. Petersen & Morten Christensen, Department of Systematic Botany, Biological Institute, University of Aarhus, Denmark

 

Joseph-Henri Léveillé

1796-1870

 

  Studied medicin and mycology in Paris. He was the first to make convincing illustrations of the basidium and the basidiomycete hymenium.

 

Plate 8 from Léveillés "Recherches sur l'hymenium des champignons"
(ann. sci. nat. Paris, ser. 2, 8 : 321-338).