Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel


Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel was a German botanist who worked largely on fungi.
From 1836 to 1852 he worked as an apothecary, afterwards deriving income from a vineyard he owned in Oestrich im Rheingau.
The species epithet in the binomen Botryotinia fuckeliana, a plant pathogen and the causal agent of gray mold disease, was named by mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary in honor of him. Fuckel was the taxonomic authority of the mycological genera Aleuria, Phyllachora, Plectania and Sclerotinia.

Works

His exsiccatae of Rhineland fungi, "Fungi rhenani exsiccati", contained a number of the type species for the taxa that he proclaimed. He was also the author of:
Formerly in nations that did not speak English, the abbreviation "Fuck." was sometimes used.