James Trappe
James Martin Trappe  | |
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| Born | Spokane, Washington, USA  | 
| Citizenship | United States | 
| Known for | Researching Truffles | 
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mycology, Forestry | 
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Elliot Stuntz | 
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Trappe | 
James Martin Trappe (born 1931) is a mycologist and expert in the field of North American truffle species. He has authored or co-authored 450 scientific papers and written three books on the subject. MycoBank lists him as either author or co-author of 401 individual species, and over the course of his career he has helped guide research on mycorrhizal fungi, and reshaped truffle taxonomy: establishing a new order, two new families, and 40 individual genera.