Lee Oras Overholts
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Lee Oras Overholts (23 June 1890 – 10 November 1946) was an American mycologist known for his expertise on polypore fungi.
Personal life
Lee Oras Overholts was born in Camden, Ohio and attended Miami University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. His postgraduate education was at Washington University where his Ph.D. was awarded in 1915.[1]
He was married twice, to Flora May Conarroe (died 7 June 1944) and then Marie Knautz. He had four children, two girls and two boys.
Overholts died 10 November 1946 at State College after a very short illness although he had been unwell for the five previous years.
Scientific career
During the course of his graduate school research, he met prominent mycologists such as Bruce Fink, Frank Dunn Kern, and Edward Angus Burt and developed an interest in the polypores. In 1915 Overholts accepted the offer of a faculty post at Pennsylvania State University from Kern.[1] He started teaching courses in botany, and later in mycology and forest pathology. He became a full professor in 1925.[1]
Overholts described 35 polypore fungi either alone or with his colleague Josiah Lincoln Lowe. However, Overholts often neglected to include a Latin description, contrary to the then-prevailing rules of botanical nomenclature, and consequently a large proportion of his species were published invalidly.[2]
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Awards and recognition
Overholts was the vice president of the Mycological Society of America in 1937, and its president in 1938.[1] Several fungal taxa been named in his honor:
- Clitocybe overholtsii Murrill 1916[4]
- Mycena overholtsii A.H.Sm. & Solheim 1953[5]
- Peniophora overholtsii Burt 1926[6]
- Phellinus overholtsii Ginns 1984[7]
- Poria overholtsii Pilát 1940
Selected works
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Overholts L.O. (1914). "The Polyporaceae of Ohio". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 1 (1): 81–155. Bibcode:1914AnMBG...1...81O. doi:10.2307/2990008. JSTOR 2990008.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Overholts L.O. (1915). "Comparative studies in the Polyporaceae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 2 (4): 667–730. Bibcode:1915AnMBG...2..667O. doi:10.2307/2989954. hdl:2027/osu.32435011307675. JSTOR 2989954.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Overholts L.O. (1924). "Pholiota". North American Flora. 1924: 261–276.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Overholts L.O. (1927). "A monograph of the genus Pholiota in the United States". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 14 (2): 87–210. Bibcode:1927AnMBG..14...87O. doi:10.2307/2394091. JSTOR 2394091.
- J. Ben Hill, Lee Overholts and Henry W. Popp (1936) Botany, A textbook for Colleges 672pp McGraw Hill Book Company
- Overholts, L.O. (1953). The Polyporaceae of the United States, Alaska and Canada. University of Michigan Studies 19: 466 pp.
See also
References
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- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kern, F.D. (1948). "Lee Oras Overholts". Mycologia. 40 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1080/00275514.1948.12017687. JSTOR 3755121.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ryvarden, L.; Gilbertson, R.L. (1984). "Type studies in the Polyporaceae 15, species described by L.O. Overholts, either alone or with J.L. Lowe". Mycotaxon. 19: 137–144. doi:10.5962/p.418724.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.International Plant Names Index. Overh.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Murrill, W.A. (1916). "Agaricaceae tribe Agariceae". North America Flora. 9 (6): 375–421 (see p. 403).
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smith, A.H.; Solheim, W.G. (1953). "New and unusual fleshy fungi from Wyoming". Madroño. 12 (4): 103–109.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burt, E.A. (1925). "The Thelephoraceae of North America. XIV. Peniophora". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 12 (3): 213–357 (see p. 290). doi:10.2307/2394076. JSTOR 2394076.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ginns, J. (1984). "New names, new combinations and new synonymy in the Corticiaceae, Hymenochaetaceae and Polyporaceae". Mycotaxon. 21: 325–333. doi:10.5962/p.418830.
External links
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