George Lorenzo Zundel

George Lorenzo Ingram Zundel (Brigham City, Utah, December 23, 1885 – March 10, 1950) was an American mycologist, phycologist, and plant pathologist.

Biography

He studied at Brigham Young University in 1909, and afterwards at the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University), where in 1911, he received a degree. He taught botany at the university, and middle school biology in Brigham City. In 1913 he moved to New York and two years later received a M.Sc. from Cornell University. In 1926 he began studying at Yale University; where he defended a doctoral thesis, dedicated to Ustilaginomycetes. From 1928 to 1946, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania, and then retired for health reasons. Zundel died March 10, 1950, in Brigham City.

Some publications

The standard author abbreviation Zundel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

• 1937. Raspberry Disease Control

Books

• 1939. (Ustilaginales): Additions and Corrections. North American Flora 7, splits 14. With John Hendley Barnhart. Ed. New York Botanical Garden, 75 pp.
• 1938. The Ustilaginales of South Africa
• 1938. To New Smut from Southern Chile
• 1937. Miscellaneous Notice on the Ustilaginales

Honors

Eponymy

Genus

• Zundeliomyces Vánky, 1987
• Zundelula Thirum. & Naras., 1952 without. Dermatosorus Sawada, 1949

Species

• Sorosporium zundelianum Cif., 1933 without. Sporisorium tembuti (Henn. & Pole-Evans) Vánky, 2007
• Sphacelotheca zundelii Hirschh., 1986, nom. inval.
• Sporisorium zundelianum Vánky, 1995
• Tilletiazundelii Hirschh., 1943