Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans

Belgian catholic priest and botanist (1825–1871).

Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans (30 October 1825, Brussels – 8 January 1871, Ghent) was a Belgian Catholic priest and botanist. In 1848 he obtained his ordination, later serving as a curate in Ghent (from 1853). In 1864 he became a member of the Académie royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, followed by a professorship at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1866. From 1868 to 1871 he was director of a Franciscan convent in Ghent. As a taxonomist he identified the genus Fittonia (family Acanthaceae). The genus Coemansia is named in his honor.

Abbreviations: Coem.
Occupations: botanical collector, botanist, Catholic priest
Citizenships: Belgium
Languages: French
Dates: 1825-10-30T00:00:00Z – 1871-01-08T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Brussels
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 7 fungi
Authorship mentions: 1 plant, 8 fungi

7 fungi attributed, 1 fungus contributed to8 fungi:

Cladonia portentosa (Reindeer Lichen) (Dufour) Coem. 1865
fungi species in the cladoniaceae family
Cladonia portentosa, also known as reindeer lichen or the cream cup lichen, is a light-coloured, fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. A similar-looking species, also known by the common name "reindeer lichen", is Cladonia rangiferina.
Mortierella Coem. 1863
fungi genus in the mortierellaceae family
Mortierella species are soil fungi belonging to the order Mortierellales within the subphylum Mortierellomycotina (phylum: Mucoromycota). The widespread genus contains about 85 species.
Mortierella polycephala Coem. 1863
fungi species in the mortierellaceae family
Mortierella polycephala is a saprotrophic fungus with a wide geographical distribution occurring in many different habitats from soil and plants to salt marshes and slate slopes. It is the type species of the genus Mortierella, and was first described in 1863 by Henri Coemans. A characteristic feature of the fungus is the presence of stylospores, which are aerial, spiny resting spores (chlamydospores).
Kickxella alabastrina Coem. 1862
fungi species in the kickxellaceae family
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Kickxella Coem. 1862
fungi genus in the kickxellaceae family
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Martensella Coem. 1863
fungi genus in the kickxellaceae family
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Cladonia portentosa ssp. portentosa (Dufour) Coem. 1865
fungi subspecies in the cladoniaceae family
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Coemansia pectinata (Coem.) Bainier 1906
fungi species in the kickxellaceae family
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