Petter Adolf Karsten

Karsten was born in Merimasku near Turku, studied at the University of Helsinki, and then moved to the inland of Tammela, where he spent most of his life with teaching botany and doing research at the Mustiala Agriculture Institute (now the Faculty of Agriculture of the HAMK University of Applied Sciences).

He amassed a vast collection, both by his own efforts and those of his correspondents, and named about 200 new genera and 2,000 new species.

[2] In 1885, botanist Elias Magnus Fries published Karstenia is a genus of fungi in the order Rhytismatales.

[4] In 1969, Harri Harmaja published Karstenella which is a genus of fungi in the order Pezizales (of family Karstenellaceae).

[5] Lastly, Karsteniomyces, which is a genus of lichenicolous fungi of unknown familial, ordinal, and class placement in the Ascomycota.