Patricio Ponce de León, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Patricio Ponce de León

Cuban mycologist

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1915

Date of Death: 26-Feb-2010

Profession: botanist, mycologist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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.