Patricio Ponce de León

Patricio Ponce de León (August 26, 1915 – February 26, 2010) was a Cuban mycologist.

He was a professor at Belen School in Havana and at the University of Havana, and later a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.

He wrote a monograph on the worldwide species of the family Geastraceae, the earthstar fungi.

Ponce de León died in Miami, Florida.

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