> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 876](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190347) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8566-1) LSID 8566-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6077779) QID Q6077779 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Romell, Lars (1854-1927), Swedish mycologist; Fil. kand. Uppsala 1855; teacher at Stockholm 1886-1890; patent attorney ibid. 1890-1927; Regnellian curator at the botany department of the Naturh. Riksmuseum ib. 1915-1920; Dr. phil. h.c. Uppsala 1927. **Abbreviated name**: *Romell* \[standard form in IPNI: *Romell*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection S|S]] (includes the Bresadola herb.; see also Schäffer 1939). – Published *Fungi exsiccati praesertim Scandinavici*, cent. 1-2, Jan 1890, 1895, 40 sets (list of species cent. 1 in Bot. Not. 1890: 151-153), sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DAO|DAO]], [[Collection FH|FH]](2), [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection HBG|HBG]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]. – Contributed to T. Vestergren, *Micromycetes rariores selecti praecipue Scandinavici*. – Letters to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 175 (b. 4 Dec 1854, d. 12 Jul 1927); Biol.-Dokum,. 15: 7631; BJI 2: 148; BM 4: 1727; Bossert p. 337; CSP 18: 284; GR p. 480, cat. p. 70; Hawksworth p. 185; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 341, 2: (files); Kelly p. 194; Kew 4: 513; KR 593-594; LS 22490-22495; Stevenson p. 1256; TL-2/4612; Urban-Berl. 281. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Not. 1912: 156, 1916: 64; Hedwigia 68: (48). 1928 (d.); Mycologia 19: 293. 1927 (d.). - Coker, W.C., J. Elisha Mitchell sci. Soc. 43(1/2): 146-151. 1927 (obit., portr., bibl. by L.R. Romell). - Fries, R.E., Short hist. bot. Sweden 74, 118, 126, 154. 1950. - Hartman, I., Industritidningen Norden 1927: \[2 p.\] (obit., portr., d. 13 Jul 1927). - Hesler, L.R., Biogr. sketch North Amer. mycol. 1975, mss. - Lindman, S., Svenska män och kvinnor 6: 314-315. 1949 (portr.). - Lloyd, C.G., Syn. sect. Ovinus of Polyporus 1911, frontisp. portr. and dedic, Mycol. Notes 16: 160-161. 1904. - Murrill, W.A., Hist. found, bot. Florida 29. 1945. - Romell, L., Bot. Centralbl. 37: \[256a\] (Inseraten-Beilage) 1889. (announcement *Fungi exs.*); Grevillea 17: 64. 1889 (id.). - Romell, L.G., Sv. bot. Tidskr. 21(3): 370-379. 1927 (obit., portr., bibl.). - Schäffer, J., Z. Pilzk. 12: 20-23, *pl. I.* 1928 (obit., portr.; description of his archival material and collection); Ark. Bot. 29A(15):1-80. 1940 (Revision der Russula-Sammlung Romells). - Shear, C.L., Mycologia 20(2): 49-51. 1928 (obit., portr.). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta horti berg. 3(2): 68. 1903, 3(3): 50, *pl. 113.* 1905. #### Composite works - (1) Associate editor *Mycologia* vols. 1-19. - (2) *Basidiomycetes from Juan Fernandez, in* C. Skottsberg, *Nat. hist. Juan Fernandez* 2: 465-471. 1926. - (3) *Svampar* (Fungi), *in* Th. O.B.N. Krok och S. Almquist, *Svensk flora för skolor*... ii. Kryptogamer, ed. 2 (1898), 3 (1907) and 4 (1917); see TL-2/3955. #### Note Romell, Lars-Gunnar (1891-1981), Swedish botanist, son of Lars Romell; Dr. phil. Stockholm 1922, professor h.c. 1948; in various functions at the Forestry Research Institute and at the University of Stockholm 1918-1928 and 1934-1957; professor of forestry and pedology at Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A. 1928-1934; published many works on plant ecology, forestry, pedology and physiology. #### Eponymy *Romellia* Berlese(1900); *Romellia* Murrill (1904); *Romellina* Petrak (1955). ### Publications ##### n.9489. Hymenomycetes austro-americani **Title** *Hymenomycetes austro-americani* in itinere regnelliano primo collecti I... Stockholm (Kungl. Boktryckeriet. P.A. Norstedt & Söner) 1901. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hymenomyc. austro-amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1901 (mss. subm. 14 Nov 1900; Nat. Nov. Apr(2) 1901), p. \[1\]-61, *pl. 1-3. Copies*: BR, G, LD, U. – Issued as Bih. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 26(3), 16. 1901. ##### n.9490. Hymenomycetes of Lappland **Title** *Hymenomycetes of Lappland*... Arkiv for Botanik Band 11. N:3. 1912. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 16 Apr 1912 (printed 10 Dec 1911; issued in journal 16 Apr 1912), p. \[1\]-35, *pl. 1-2. Copies*: LD, U. – To be cited as Ark. Bot. 11(3), 1912.