Warning Readers of this article are warned that it may contain terms, descriptions and opinions that are culturally sensitive and/or offensive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Silesian-born Lothar Becker spent two periods in Australia, during which he made observations on a range of natural history topics, including fungi—a group of organisms rarely noticed by contemporary naturalists. Becker compiled notes, sketches and collections of Australian fungi that he sent to Elias Fries in Sweden for identification. Unfortunately, this material has not survived, but Becker’s accounts of his time in Australia, especially that published in Das Ausland in 1873, contain remarkable first-hand observations, including some on exotic fungi. Becker’s article is one of the earliest stand-alone analyses of the affinities of the Australian mycota. Remarks on the use of fungi by Aboriginal peoples of south-eastern Australia are particularly significant, due to inclusion of a word presumed to be from Aboriginal language and the suggestion of gendered roles in the collection of edible fungi.

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Lothar Becker 的真菌学贡献的意义

警告 警告本文的读者，它可能包含对土著和托雷斯海峡岛民具有文化敏感性和/或冒犯性的术语、描述和观点。出生于西里西亚的 Lothar Becker 在澳大利亚度过了两个时期，期间他对一系列自然历史主题进行了观察，其中包括真菌——当代博物学家很少注意到的一组生物。贝克尔整理了澳大利亚真菌的笔记、草图和收藏品，并将其发送给瑞典的埃利亚斯·弗里斯进行鉴定。不幸的是，这些材料没有保存下来，但贝克尔对他在澳大利亚的时间的描述，尤其是 1873 年在 Das Ausland 上发表的那些，包含了非凡的第一手观察，包括一些关于外来真菌的观察。贝克尔的文章是对澳大利亚真菌亲缘关系最早的独立分析之一。