> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 865](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069107) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5529-1) LSID 5529-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1375120) QID Q1375120 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Léveillé, Joseph Henri (1796-1870), French physician and mycologist at Paris; Dr. med. Paris 1824; one of the discoverers of the basidium. **Abbreviated name**: *Lév.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lév.*\] #### Herbarium and types Léveillé's herbarium and most of his manuscripts were destroyed during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871. However, many duplicates had been sent to Montagne (now at [[Collection PC|PC]]). Léveillé also sent some early material to Persoon for determination (now at [[Collection L|L]]) and later identified part of the other Leiden and Paris collections of fungi. E. S. Salmon (1900) states that the collection of *Erysiphaceae* at [[Collection K|K]] "is especially valuable in containing Berkeley's herbarium. In this occur, besides Berkeley's types, no less than 98 specimens sent by Léveillé to this author..." Salmon, Donk (private comm.) and Hawksworth cite indeed Léveillé material from [[Collection K|K]]. Koster cites Léveillé algae from [[Collection BM|BM]]. Some further mycological herbarium is at [[Collection K|K]]. *Ref*.: Salmon, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 9: 26. 1900. - Koster, J. T. Taxon 18: 555. 1969. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 359. 1975. #### Note Léveillé described the basidium in Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 2: 8: 321-328. 1837; he was preceded by F. M. Ascherson, Arch. Naturgesch. 2: 372. 1836. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(1): 276; Ainsworth p. 344; Barnhart 2: 374; BM 3: 1101-1102; CSP 3: 988; Frank 3(Anh.): 57; GR p. 286-287, cat. p. 67; Hawksworth p. 184; IH 2: 436; Jackson p. 572; Kew 3: 424; Lasègue p. 574; LS 15300-15338, 35964; NAF 9(6): 441, 7(15): 1075; PR 5259-5262 (ed. 1: 5821-5834); Rehder 5: 507; SBC p. 125 ("Lév."); Stevenson p. 1249; TL-2/1: 1363, 1598, 1969, see Demidow, A. N.; TR 775-777; Tucker 1: 425; Urban-Berl. p. 266, 278, 288, 305, 369. - Anon., J. Bot. 8: 136. 1870; Flora 53: 174. 1870, Bot. Zeit. 28: 280. 1870. - Cesati, V. de, Saggio bibl. algol. ital. 222bis. 1882. - Cordier & Decaisne, Bull. Soc. bot. France 17(c.r.): 75, 77-80. 1870 (bibl.), 17(bibl.): 45. 1870. - Constantin, Ann. Sci. nat. bot. ser. 10. 16: xlii. 1934 (portr.). - Laundon, G. F., Taxon 16: 194-195. 1967 (rust names attributed to L.). - Lütjeharms, W. J., Gesch. Mykol. 11, 130, 244. 1936. - Merrill, E. D., Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 30(1): 189. 1947. - Stafleu, F. A., Regn. veg. 71: 331, 339. 1970. - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): xl, 107, *pl. 53* 1905. #### Composite works - (1) *Observations médicales et enumération des plantes recueillies en Tauride*, par le docteur J. H. Léveillé, *in* A. N. de Demidoff, *Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée*, 2: \[33\]-242. 1842 (also issued separately without imprint; copy MO). Also: *Catalogue des plantes phanérogames recueillies dans la chaine du Donetz* in vol. 4 \[1842?\]. - (2) *Champignons*, in Gaudichaud, C., Voy. *Bonite, Bot*. 2: 164-204. Oct-Nov 1846, Atlas *pl. 136-140.* after 1852. - (3) *Fungi*, in Triana, J. & J. E. Planchon, *Prodr. fl. Novo-Gratens.* 2: 150-169. 1863 (Ann. Sci. nat. Bot. ser. 4. 20: 282-300. 1863). - (4) Co-editor, *Dict. univ. hist. nat.*, see A. C. V. D. d'Orbigny. - (5) *Fungi*, in A. Moritzi, *Syst. Verz.* 118-126. 1846. #### Eponymy *Leveillea* Decaisne (1839); *Leveillea* E. M. Fries (1849); *Leveilleites* Foerste (1923); *Leveillella* Theissen & H. Sydow (1915) *Leveillina* Theissen & H. Sydow (1915); *Leveillinopsis* F. L. Stevens (1924); *Leveillula* Arnaud (1921). ### Publications ##### n.4468. Notice sur le genre Agaric **Title** *Notice sur le genre Agaric*, considéré sous les rapports botanique, économique, médical et toxicologique... (extrait du Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle.) Paris (Rue de Seine-Saint-Germain, 47.) 1840. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Not. Agaric*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1840, p. \[i, iii\], \[1\]-20. *Copies*: FH, Stevenson. ##### n.4469. Considérations mycologiques **Title** *Considérations mycologiques*, suivies d'une nouvelle classification des champignons, par J. H. Léveillé, D.M. (extrait du Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle) Paris (Rue de Bussy, 6) 1846. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Considér. mycol.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1846, p. \[1\]-136. *Copies*: G, MICH, NY, Stevenson. – Preprinted from Dict. univ. Hist. nat. 8: 454-496. 1849. ##### n.4470. Iconographie des champignons de Poulet **Title** *Iconographie des champignons de Poulet*, recueil de 217 planches dessinées d'après nature, gravées et coloriées, accompagné d'un texte nouveau présentant la description des espèces figurées, leur synonymie, l'indication de leurs propriétés utiles ou vénéneuses, l'époque et les lieux où elles croissent... Paris (Chez J. B. Baillière), Londres (H. Baillière), New York (H. Baillière), Madrid (C. Bailly-Baillière) 1855. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Iconogr. champ. Paulet*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug-Dec 1855 (p. viii: Jul 1855), p. \[i-ii\], frontisp. portr. Paulet, \[iii\]-viii, \[1\]-135, *pl. 1-204, 35bis, 97bis, 100bis, 112bis, 122bis, 135bis, 139bis, 140bis, 156bis, 156ter, 166bis, 168bis, 183bis* (Copy USDA; Stevenson copy has also *69 bis* (in all *217 pl.*). *Copies*: MICH, Stevenson, USDA. – A reissue of the plates of Jean Jacques Paulet's *Traité des champignons* (42 fasc., 1793-1835) accompanied by new text by Léveillé. Paulet's original plate numbers were not retained (see p. 135).