Greta Stevenson

Stevenson was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the oldest of four children of William Stevenson and his wife Grace Mary Scott. William was the managing director of the canned food manufacture Irvine and Stevenson. ==Researches in mycology==

Stevenson published three books on ferns and fungi, all of which were illustrated with her own drawings. She is known for her five-part series on the Agaricales of New Zealand, published in the Kew Bulletin between 1962 and 1964, in which she described over 150 new species. Stevenson's c. 3,000 collections of New Zealand fungi span two periods in her life. ==Eponymous taxa==

• Entoloma stevensoniae E.Horak (1980); a nomen novum for Entoloma niveum G. Stev. (1962) • Hygrocybe stevensoniae T.W.May & A.E.Wood (1995) ==Selected works==

• Stevenson, G. (1946–47). The growth of a species of the genus Lilaeopsis in fresh-water reservoirs near Wellington. (PDF) Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 76 (4):581–88. • ___________. (1954). A Book of Ferns. New York: Henry George Fiedler. 160 pp. • ___________. (1954). Nitrogen fixation by non-nodulated plants, and by nodulated Coriaria arborea. Nature 182 :1523–1524. • ___________. (1962). The Agaricales of New Zealand: I. Boletaceae and Strobilomycetaceae. Kew Bulletin 15 (3): 381–85. • ___________. (1962). The Agaricales of New Zealand: II. Kew Bulletin 16 (1): 65–74. • ___________. (1962). The Agaricales of New Zealand: III. Kew Bulletin 16 (2): 227–37. • ___________. (1963). The Agaricales of New Zealand: IV. Kew Bulletin 16 (3): 373–84. • ___________. (1964). The Agaricales of New Zealand: V. Kew Bulletin 19 (1): 1–59. • ___________. (1967). The Biology of Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses. London: Edward Arnold. 202 pp. • ___________. (1982). Field Guide to Fungi. Canterbury: University of Canterbury. 122 pp. • ___________. (1978). Botanical evidence linking the New Zealand Maoris with New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. Nature 276 :704–705. ==See also==