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Henry William Ravenel
Born(1814-05-19)May 19, 1814
Berkeley County, South Carolina
DiedJuly 17, 1887(1887-07-17) (aged 73)
Aiken, South Carolina
Occupation(s)Planter, botanist

Henry William Ravenel (May 19, 1814 – July 17, 1887) was an American planter and botanist. He studied fungi and cryptogams in South Carolina, discovering a large number of new species. The genus Ravenelia is named after him, along with many of the species he discovered.

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Henry William Ravenel

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Henry William Ravenel (May 19, 1814 – July 17, 1887) was an American planter and botanist. He studied fungi and cryptogams in South Carolina, discovering...

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Leucocoprinus fragilissimus

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on an earlier unofficial classification by the American botanist Henry William Ravenel. In 1907 the American mycologist Andrew Price Morgan reclassified...

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Peziza phyllogena

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on material from South Carolina sent to him by American botanist Henry William Ravenel. In a 1987 publication, Donald Pfister placed Peziza badioconfusa...

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Clariosophic Society

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and Governor of South Carolina Henry L. Pinckney, later U.S. Representative from South Carolina Henry William Ravenel, Botanist James Rogers, later U...

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Hygrophoropsis flabelliformis

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It was first described by mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Henry William Ravenel in 1853 as Cantharellus flabelliformis. E.J.H. Corner transferred...

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Phallus ravenelii

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the closely related Phallus impudicus. The fungus is named after Henry William Ravenel, a botanist who first discovered it in 1846, though it remained...

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Clavariadelphus unicolor

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Joseph Berkeley and Henry William Ravenel as Craterellus unicolor, it was transferred to the genus Clavariadelphus by Edred John Henry Corner in 1950. "GSD...

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Cortinarius iodes

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Curtis in 1853. The type collection was made by American botanist Henry William Ravenel in South Carolina. Joseph Ammirati and Howard Bigelow considered...

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Florence Ravenel

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Florence Ravenel (March 18, 1896 – December 18, 1975) also known as Florence Ray, was an American stage, radio and film actress, perhaps best known for...

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1887 in science

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26 – Anandi Gopal Joshi (born 1865), Indian physician. July 17 – Henry William Ravenel (born 1814), American botanist. July 18 – Dorothea Dix (born 1802)...

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1814 in science

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20 – Filippo de Filippi, Italian zoologist (died 1867). May 19 – Henry William Ravenel, American botanist (died 1887). May 22 – Joseph-Louis Lambot, French...

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The Land We Love

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promptly. Hill sought out contributions from Henry William Ravenel on botanical subjects in a letter to Ravenel dated 26 November 1866, pointing out that...

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Bathelium carolinianum

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refers to the type locality, in Santee Canal, South Carolina, where Henry William Ravenel found it growing on tree trunks in 1851. Richard Harris transferred...

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Dryopteris cognata

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Retrieved 2021-07-23. "Dryopteris cognata - Specimen Viewer - Henry William Ravenel - Plants and Planter". plantsandplanter.org. Retrieved 2021-07-23...

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Reimnitzia

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santensis by American Edward Tuckerman, from specimens collected by Henry William Ravenel in South Carolina. The main characteristic of the lichen is the...

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Amanita ravenelii

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 rhopalopus. The specific epithet ravenelli honors American mycologist Henry William Ravenel. The fungus is commonly known as the "pinecone Lepidella". The cap...

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Harriott Horry Ravenel

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Pinckney and William Lowndes would later be the subject of biographies by Ravenel. One of her uncles was herpetologist John Edwards Holbrook. Ravenel's literary...

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Richard Owen Currey

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Press. Retrieved November 4, 2017. Haygood, Tamara Mine (1987). Henry William Ravenel, 1814-1887: South Carolina Scientist in the Civil War Era. Tuscaloosa...

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Loweomyces fractipes

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American botanist Henry William Ravenel. It has been transferred to many different polypore genera in its taxonomic history. William Murrill moved it to...

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Beatrice Ravenel

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Beatrice Witte Ravenel (August 24, 1870 – March 15, 1956) was an American poet associated with the Charleston Renaissance in South Carolina. Beatrice...

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Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

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(London, 1878) Fungi Americani exsiccati (exsiccata series) with Henry William Ravenel (1878–82) The Woodlands (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1974 South Carolina gubernatorial election

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1974 . Charles D. Ravenel emerged as the winner of the runoff election, but the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that Ravenel did not meet the five-year...

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Pulveroboletus ravenelii

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Curtis in 1853. Specimens were sent to them by American botanist Henry William Ravenel, who collected them in South Carolina. They considered the bolete...

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John Henry Devereux

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Historic Churches of Charleston. Charleston: Legerton & Co. pp. 40–41. Ravenel, Beatrice St. Julien (1904–1990); Julien, Carl (photographs); Carolina...

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Henry William de Saussure

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Henry William de Saussure (August 16, 1763 – March 26, 1839) was an American lawyer, state legislator and jurist from South Carolina who became a political...

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