Sanford Myron Zeller (19 October 1885 – 4 November 1948) was an American mycologist.

Born in Coldwater, Michigan, Zeller was educated at Lawrence College in Wisconsin, then Greenville College in Illinois, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1909. He earned his doctorate in botany in 1917 at Washington University in St. Louis, and two years later started a 29-year stint as a plant pathologist and professor at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station in Corvallis, Oregon. He published over 150 scientific papers during his career. Zeller specialized in the gasteroid fungi.

Sanford Myron Zeller

Independently, he described 3 orders, 9 families, 7 genera, 81 species, and published 29 new names and combinations, as well as 3 genera, 62 species, and 59 combinations in collaborations with other scientists. Zeller was the associate editor of the scientific journal Phytopathology from 1924 to 1930.

Sanford Myron Zeller

Eponymous taxa

Aleurodiscus zelleri Burt 1926

Armillaria zelleri D.E. Stuntz & A.H.Sm. 1949

Boletellus zelleri (Murrill) Singer, Snell & E.A.Dick 1960

Boletus zelleri (Murrill) Murrill 1912

Ceriomyces zelleri Murrill 1912

Craterellus zelleri Burt 1926

Elasmomyces zellerianus Singer & A.H.Sm. 1960

Exidia zelleri Lloyd 1920

Godronia zelleri Seaver 1945

Macowanites zellerianus (Singer & A.H.Sm.) Trappe, T.Lebel & Castellano 2002

Polyporus zelleri Murrill 1915

Rhizopogon zelleri A.H.Sm. 1966

Russula zelleri Burl. 1936

Tricholoma zelleri (D.E.Stuntz & A.H.Sm.) Ovrebo & Tylutki 1975

Xerocomus zelleri (Murrill) Snell 1944

Zelleromyces Singer & A.H.Sm. 1960

References

1885 births

1948 deaths

American mycologists

Washington University in St. Louis alumni

Sanford Myron Zeller