User:Crowea-RBGV/Tersea Lebel

Biography
Teresa Lebel is a taxonomist who works on fungi, with a particular interest in subterranean truffle-like fungi. Lebel studied at Oregon State University before taking up a position at the National Herbarium of Victoria as a Mycologist. Lebel also spent considerable time as the Editor of Muelleria. Lebel spent time at Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, a two year sabbatical on the Ross Beever Memorial Fellowship. Lebel is currently Senior Botanist and Curator Cryptogams at the State Herbarium of South Australia.

The National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 1200 specimens collected by Lebel, the majority of her collections. Other herbaria in Australia holding her collections include Western Australian Herbarium, State Herbarium of South Australia, New Zealand Fungarium Te Kohinga Hekakeka o Aotearoa, Queensland Herbarium, Australian National Herbarium, Tasmanian Herbarium and the New South Wales Plant Pathology Herbarium.

Selected published names

 * Cortinarius cinereoroseolus Danks, T.Lebel & Vernes


 * See also Category:Taxa named by Teresa Lebel

Journals
Davoodian, N., Jackson, C.J., Holmes, G.D., Lebel, T. (2020). Continental‐scale metagenomics, BLAST searches, and herbarium specimens: The Australian Microbiome Initiative and the National Herbarium of Victoria. Applications In Plant Sciences 8(9)