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)