Carlos Eugenio Chardon Palacios, Puerto Rican plant pathologist and mycologist (Ponce 28 September 1897 – San Juan 07 March 1965)

From French descent 

Discovered Aphis maidis as the vector of sugar cane mosaic virus (1922)

With Raphael A. Veve. The transmission of sugar cane mosaic by Aphis maidis under field conditions in Puerto Rico. Phytopathology 13:24-9, 1923

DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA

Order

Coryneliales 1926 with Seaver

Valid Genera

Dictyochorina 1932

Glabrotheca 1939

Leptosporina 1939

Species

More than a hundred

HONORS (Fungi)

Chardonia Ciferri 1930

Chardoniella Kern 1939