Henry Dissing

Henry Dissing (1931 – 10 December 2009) was a Danish mycologist and specialist in cup fungi. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Selected species described by Henry Dissing

• Urnula groenlandica
• Lathraeodiscus arcticus

Selected scientific works

• Dissing, Henry & Morten Lange (1962) Gasteromycetes of Congo. Bulletin du Jardin botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 32 (4): 325-416.
• Dissing, Henry (1966) The genus Helvella in Europe: with special emphasis on the species found in Norden. Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 25 (1): 1-172.
• Dissing, Henry (1981) Four new species of Discomycetes (Pezizales) from West Greenland. Mycologia 73 (2): 263-273.
• Dissing, Henry (1989) Mycological studies dedicated to Morten Lange. Opera Botanica 100. 274 s.
• Dissing, Henry & Sigmund Sivertsen (1988) Lathraeodiscus arcticus gen. nov. sp. nov. (order Pezizales): a new discomycete from North Greenland and Svalbard. Mycologia 80 (6): 832-836.

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