Biography

Peter MacOwan, English-born South African botanist and mycologist (Hull, England 14 November 1830 – Uitenhagen, Cape Province 30 November 1909)

DESCRIBED

Plantae

Species

Agasthoma wrightii 1890

Aspalathus argyrella 1890

Aspalathus humilis 1889 with Bolus

Athrixia fontana 1881

Babiana macrantha 1890

Berkheya caffra 1890

Berkheya debilis 1890

Bowkeria cymosa 1896

Bowkeria simplicifolia 1896

Garuleum tanacetifolium

Geissorhiza bellendenii 1892

Habenaria arachnoides 1893 

Helichrysum argyrolepis 1890

Lamiostachys tubulosa 1893

Leonotis laxifolia 1893

Lobelia laxa

Moraea xerospatha 1897

Polygala confusa 1890 

Polygala gymnoclada 1890

Ranunculus baurii 1881

Senecio cornu-cervi 1869

Senecio harveyanus 1890

Senecio napifolius 1890

Senecio prionites 1881

Senecio rumicifolius 1881 with Bolus

Senecio serratus 1881 with Bolus

Senecio surculosus 1869

Senecio tropaeolifolius 1867

Senecio trullifolius 1881

Senecio tysonii 1890 

Stachys obtusifolia 1893

Fungi

Valid Genus

Lopharia 1881 with Kalchbrenner

Species

Aecidium chlorophyti

Aecidium rafniae

Amanita pleuropus

Chamaeceras filaris with Kalchbrenner

Dicaeoma exanthematica 1882

Dicaeoma mesembryanthemi 1892

Dicaeoma stobeae 1882

Exidia purpureocinerea with Kalchbrenner

Flammula tilopoda with Kalchbrenner

Hygrocybe discolor 1880 with Kalchbrenner

Kalchbrennera tuckii with Kalchbrenner

Lepiota polysarca with Kalchbrenner

Lepiota pterodota with Kalchbrenner

Lepiota varians 1887 with Kalchbrenner

Lopharia lirellosa 1881 with Kalchbrenner

Lysurus woodii 1880

Mycena casta

Phellorinia squamosa with Kalchbrenner

Pholiota tilopus 1881 with Kalchbrenner

Phyllotopsis salmonea with Kalchbrenner

Pleurotus sciadium with Kalchbrenner

Pocillaria fastuosus 1881 with Kalchbrenner

Pocillaria murrayi 1891 with Kalchbrenner

Stereum amoneum 1881 with Kalchbrenner

Stropharia olivaceoflava with Kalchbrenner

Uredo heteromorphae

Uromyces trollipi with Kalchbrenner

Xerotus caffrorum 1881 with Kalchbrenner

HONORS

Macowaniella Doidge 1921 (Fungi)

Macowanites Kalchbrenner 1882 (Fungi)

Macowania D. Oliver 1870 (Asteraceae)