M. J. Narasimhan

Mandayam Jeersannidhi Narasimhan (1 July 1891 – 24 September 1970[1]) was a pioneering Indian plant pathologist and mycologist who worked in the state of Mysore.

Narasimhan was born in Madras in a family of scholars, with a grandfather who had collaborated with Max Müller.

Narasimhan went to the Madras Presidency College, studying botany under P.F.

He joined as an assistant mycologist under Leslie Coleman in 1913 in Mysore.

A son, M.J. Thirumalachar also took to mycology and along with him he studied Sclerospora mildews and described the new genus Sclerophthora.