Amédée Galzin (1 May 1853,édé Parrinet, Aveyron – 14 February 1925, Parrinet) was a French veterinarian and mycologist.

In 1878 he obtained his degree from the veterinary college in Toulouse. From 1879 to 1905, he served as a military veterinarian, becoming a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1899.

Amédée Galzin

With Abbé Hubert Bourdot, he was co-author of a series of publications (11 parts, 1909 to 1925) involving Hymenomycetes native to France; all parts being published in the Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France. With Bourdot, he also wrote Heterobasidiae nondum descriptae (Descriptions of a few jelly fungi).

Amédée Galzin

With Bourdot, he was the taxonomic authority of the fungi genus Oxyporus, as well as of numerous mycological species.

Amédée Galzin

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1853 births

1925 deaths

People from Aveyron

French mycologists