Richard Clinton Harris
Richard Clinton Harris | |
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| Born | Richard Clinton Harris December 6, 1939 |
| Died | May 10, 2021 (aged 81) Carmel, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College; Michigan State University |
| Known for | Systematics of pyrenocarpous lichens; lichen floras of eastern North America; regional identification manuals for Florida and Puerto Rico |
| Spouse | William R. Buck (m. 2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Lichenology; mycology |
| Institutions | The New York Botanical Garden |
| Thesis | "A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Arthopyrenia Massal. s. lat. (Ascomycetes) in North America' (1975) |
| Doctoral advisors | Henry Andrew Imshaug |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | R.C.Harris |
Richard Clinton "Dick" Harris (December 6, 1939 – May 10, 2021) was an American lichenologist associated for most of his career with the New York Botanical Garden. He was especially known for his work on pyrenocarpous lichens and lichenicolous fungi and for his wide field knowledge of the lichen flora of eastern North America. Over more than five decades he described over 200 new species and infraspecific taxa, 14 genera, and three families of lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi, and became an influential figure in North American organismal lichenology.