# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/curtis-gates-lloyd
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:57:27.496Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/curtis-gates-lloyd"
name: "Curtis Gates Lloyd"
slug: "curtis-gates-lloyd"
description: "Curtis Gates Lloyd was an American mycologist known for both his research on the gasteroid and polypore fungi, as well as his controversial views on naming conventions in taxonomy. He had a herbarium with about 60,000 fungal specimens, and described over a thousand new species of fungi. Along with his two brothers John Uri Lloyd and Nelson Ashley Lloyd, he founded the Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati."
tagline: "American mycologist (1859–1926)"
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birthDate: "1859-07-17"
deathDate: "1926-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump