Luella K. Weresub

Luella Kayla Weresub, Ph.D. (19181979) was a world authority on the botanical nomenclature of fungi, especially corticioid fungi and sclerotium-producing basidiomycetes. She was a mycologist at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, with Canada’s federal department of agriculture (now Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). She re-entered Queen’s University in 1947 and earned her B.A. in Biology in 1950. was named in 1974 in honor of her contributions to the study of corticioid Basidiomycetes, and posthumously the fungal species Harknessia weresubiae Nag Raj, DiCosmo & W.B. Kendr. and Scutellospora weresubiae Koske & C. Walker (1986) were named after her as tributes by her colleagues. Extensive obituaries were published by the Mycological Society of America More recently, in 2013–2014 her contributions as a Ukrainian Canadian led to publications on her life in the Ukrainian language in both Canada and Ukraine.