Tryambak Shankar Mahabale, Indian botanist and paleobotanist (Ahmednagar 19 October 1909 – 03 July 1983)
Authored over 140 research papers
Performed studies on plant morphology and embryology
Discovered that the fern Regnellidium diphyllum produces rubber being the first report of lactescence in Pteridophyta (1949) before Labouriau
DESCRIBED
Living
Species
Folioceros dixitianus 1942 (Bryophyta)
Isoetes sahyadriensis 1938 (Pteridophyta)
Fossil
Genera
Tetracoccosporium 1972 with Biradar (Fungi)
Kamthioxylon 1980 with Vagyani (Plantae)
Species
Fungi
Diplodites rodei 1968
Tetracoccosporium eocenum 1972 with Biradar
Plantae
Euphorbioxylon sagarense 1963 with Deshpande
Kamthioxylon adhariense 1980 with Vagyani
Palmocarpon insigne 1950
Palmoxylon khondaliensis 1981 with Kulkarni
Salvinia intertrappea 1950
Sonneratioxylon intertrappeum 1975 with Biradar
Taxaceoxylon kateruense 1973 with Rao
Terminalioxylon tomentosum with Deshpande
HONORS
Mahabalella Sutton & Patil 1966 (Fungi)