Hermann Friedrich Bonorden (28 August 1801 – 19 May 1884) was a German physician and mycologist. During his career he served as a Regimentarzt (regimental medical doctor) in Köln.[1]
In 1866, Stephan Schulzer von Müggenburg named the fungi genus Bonordenia in his honor. The genus Bonordeniella was named after him by Albert Julius Otto Penzig and Pier Andrea Saccardo (1901).[1] Bonorden was the author of numerous mycological taxa, the following are some of the genera that he circumscribed:
- Fusicolla (1851).
- Hormomyces (1851).
- Cornicularia (1851), syn. Clavulinopsis.
- Polythecium (1861), syn. Fusicoccum.
- Byssitheca (1864), syn. Rosellinia.[2]
Written works
He was the author of books in the fields of medicine and mycology, the following are three of his mycological efforts:
- Handbuch der allgemeinen Mykologie, 1851 - Manual of general mycology.
- Zur Kenntniss einiger der wichtigsten Gattungen der Coniomyceten und Cryptomyceten, 1860 - To the knowledge of some of the major genera of Coniomycetes and Cryptomycetes.
- Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Mykologie, 1864 - Treatises from the field of mycology.[3][4]