> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 188](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189659) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/24762-1) LSID 24762-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7817222) QID Q7817222 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Petch, Thomas (1870-1948), British botanist (plant pathologist and mycologist) and schoolteacher at King's Lynn and Leyton; at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1905-1925; director Tea research institute of Ceylon 1925-1928. **Abbreviated name**: *Petch* \[standard form in IPNI: *Petch*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] (fungi); other material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection BM|BM]] (slides), [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PDA|PDA]]. – P's library, which included that of his father-in-law C. Plowright, was sold by Dawson's in 1949. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 230, 332, 346; Barnhart 3: 72; CSP 17: 813; Desmond p. 491; IH 2: (in press); Kelly p. 174, 256; Kew 4: 281; Lenley p. 325; LS 20508-20521, 37822, suppl. 21281-21372 (extensive bibl.!); MW p. 384, suppl. p. 278; NAF 1: 167, 7: 1083; PH 567; Stevenson p. 1254; Tucker 1: 551. #### Biofile - Ainsworth, G.C., Dict. fungi, ed. 6, 436. 1971; Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 67(1): 179-181. 1976 (centenary tribute; portr., b. 11 Mar 1870, d. 24 Dec 1948; influenced by C. Plowright). - Bisby, G.R., Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc, Fifty year Index 18-19. 1952. - Blackwell, E.M., Naturalist 877: 65. 1961 (biogr. sketch; reminescences J. Ramsbottom). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.396, 269.232. 1980. - Brooks, F.T., Nature 163: 202-203. 1949 (obit., d. 24 Dec 1949). - Doidge, E., Bothalia 5: 1015. 1950. - Grainger, J., Naturalist 829: 50. 1949 (obit., d. 24 Dec 1948). - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenol. Brit. Isl. 132. 1977. - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 118. 1970 ("T. Petch" contributed to Sydow and Petrak's series of exsiccatae). - Holttum, R., Taxon 19: 710. 1970. - J.F.R., Trans. Hull. sci. field Natural. Cl. 3(2): 182-183. 1904 (obit., portr.). - Laundon, J.R., Lichenologist 11: 16. 1979 (herb., slides). - Merrill, E.D., B.P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 144: 149. 1937. (Polynes.); Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 30(1): 240. 1947. - Palmer, J.T., Nova Hedwigia 15: 152. 1968 (bibl. Gasteromyc). - Petch, T. and G.R. Bisby, The fungi of Ceylon, Colombo, Mar 1950, v, 11 p., map. (list of refs. contains a bibl. of T's writings on Ceylon fungi). - Ramsbottom, J., J. Bot. 61: 201-203. 1923 (review of *Diseases Tea-Bush*, 1923, and *Fungus diseases of crops*, 1922); Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 30: 7, 11, 13. 1948. - Stearn, W.T., Nat. Hist. Mus. S. Kensington 306. 1981. #### Composite works - (1) Editor *Annals r. Bot. Gard. Peradeniya* vols. 5-9, 1911-1925. - (2) with G.R. Bisby, *The fungi of Ceylon*, Colombo, Mar 1950, p. \[i-v\], map, \[1\]-111. *Copy*: BR. #### Eponymy *Petchia* Livera (1926). #### Note The series of papers *Studies in entomogenous fungi* was published in Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. and Ann. R.B.G. Peradeniya: *1*: *in* Trans. 7(1, 2): 89-132. 15 Jul 1921, 7(3): 133-167, *Pl. 3-5. 13* Dec 1921. *2*: *in* Ann. 7(3): 167-278, *pl*. 2-5. Oct 1921. *3*: *in* Trans.9(1, 2): 108-128, *pl. 2.* 29 Sep 1923. *4*: *in* Trans. 10(1): 28-44. *pl. I.* 26 Sep 1924. *5*: *in* Trans. 10(2): 45-80. *pl. 2-3.* 26 Sep 1924. *6*: *in* Trans. 10(3): 152-182. 15 Mai 1924. *7*: *in* Trans. 10(3): 183-189, 190-201. 15 Mai 1925. *8*: *in* Trans. 16(1): 55-75. 1931. *9*: *in* Trans. 11(1/2): 50-66. *pl. I.* 26 Aug 1926. *10*: *in* Trans. 11(3/4): 251-266. Dec 1926. *Notes in entomogenous fungi* were published in Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. *16*: 55-75. 4 Sep 1931, 209-245. 2 Mai 1932; *18*: 48-75. 16 Aug 1933; *19*: 161-194. 19 Feb 1935.