Petter Adolf Karsten [SEP] occupation
Petter Adolf Karsten
Petter Adolf Karsten (16 February 1834 – 22 March 1917) was a Finnish mycologist, the foremost expert on the fungi of Finland in his day, and known in consequence as the "father of Finnish mycology".
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
Physisporinus vitreus
Physisporinus vitreus is a species of crust fungus in the family Meripilaceae, and the type species of the genus "Physisporinus". It was originally described by Christian Hendrik Persoon by 1796. Petter Adolf Karsten transferred it to the genus "Physisporinus" in 1889.