{{short description|American mycologist (1930–2006)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}} {{infobox scientist |name=Orson K. Miller Jr. |birth_name=Orson Knapp Miller Jr. |birth_date={{birth date|1930|12|19}} |birth_place=Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|2006|6|9|1930|12|19}} |education=University of Massachusetts<br>University of Michigan (PhD) |spouse={{marriage|Hope Hartigan Miller|1953}} |children=3 |fields=Mycology }} [[File:Chroogomphus rutilus 1.jpg|thumb|''Chroogomphus rutilus'', the type species of mushroom in a genus erected by Miller]]

'''Orson Knapp Miller Jr.''' (December 19, 1930 – June 9, 2006)<ref>[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RO&p_theme=ro&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1124E59464263238&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM newsbank archive]</ref> was an American mycologist. He published numerous papers in mycology and was responsible for the naming of many taxa, as well as being one of the authors erecting the genus ''Chroogomphus''. He described ''Omphalotus olivascens'', several species of ''Amanita'', and the ghoul fungus ''Hebeloma aminophilum''.

He married Hope Hartigan Miller in 1953; both were mycologists and published books, including at least one together. Hope died on September 26, 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 4, 2018|title=Hope H. Miller|url=https://missoulian.com/news/local/obituaries/hope-h-miller/article_350a4bf0-03bc-5296-8a41-9307a960e20f.html|access-date=2021-02-25|website=Missoulian|language=en}}</ref>

==Works==

His books include:<ref name="BEN">[http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ben364.html BOTANICAL ELECTRONIC NEWS] ISSN 1188-603X; July 19, 2006</ref> * ''Mushrooms of North America'' (1972) {{ISBN|978-0525161653}} * ''Gasteromycetes: Morphological and Developmental Features with Keys to the Orders, Families, and Genera'' (1988) {{ISBN|978-0916422745}} * ''North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi'' (2006) {{ISBN|978-0762731091}} (with Hope H. Miller)

==Awards and honors==

He received the William H. Weston Award for Teaching Excellence in Mycology, and the Distinguished Mycologist Award.<ref name="BEN"/> Several fungus species have been named in his honor, including: *''Amanita orsonii'' Ash.Kumar & T.N. Lakh. (1990)<ref name="Kumar 1990"/> *''Clitocybe milleri'' H.E.Bigelow (1985)<ref name="Bigelow 1985"/> *''Crepidotus milleri'' Hesler & A.H.Sm. (1965)<ref name="Hesler 1965"/> *''Entoloma milleri'' Noordel. (2004)<ref name="Noordeloos 2004"/> *''Pholiota milleri'' A.H. Sm. & Hesler (1968)<ref name="Smith 1968"/> *''Plectania milleri'' Paden & Tylutki (1969)<ref name="Paden 1969"/> *''Tylopilus orsonianus'' Fulgenzi & T.W.Henkel (2007)<ref name="Fulgenzi 2007"/>

{{botanist|O.K.Mill.|Miller, Orson K. Jr}}

==References== <references> <ref name="Bigelow 1985">{{cite journal |author=Bigelow HE. |title=North American species of ''Clitocybe''. II |journal=Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia |year=1985 |volume=81 |pages=281–471 (see p.&nbsp;357)}}</ref>

<ref name="Fulgenzi 2007">{{cite journal |vauthors=Fulgenzi TD, Henkel TW, Halling RE |title=''Tylopilus orsonianus'' sp. nov. and ''Tylopilus eximius'' from Guyana |journal=Mycologia |year=2007 |volume=99 |issue=4 |pages=622–7 |pmid=18065013 |doi=10.3852/mycologia.99.4.622}}</ref>

<ref name="Hesler 1965">{{cite book |vauthors=Hesler LR, Smith AH |title=North American Species of ''Crepidotus'' |year=1965 |location=New York and London |publisher=Hafner Publishing Company |page=134 |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fung1tc/AGK0799.0001.001/138?rgn=full+text;view=image}}</ref>

<ref name="Kumar 1990">{{cite book |vauthors=Kumar A, Bhatt RP, Lakhanpal TN |title=The Amanitaceae of India |year=1990 |edition=3 |publisher=Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh |location=Dehra Dun |page=75 |isbn=978-8121100465}}</ref>

<ref name="Noordeloos 2004">{{cite journal |vauthors=Noordeloos M, Gulden G |title=The genus ''Entoloma'' (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) on Svalbard |journal=Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden |year=2004 |volume=89 |pages=97–106}}</ref>

<ref name="Paden 1969">{{cite journal |vauthors=Paden JW, Tylukti EE |title=Idaho discomycetes. II |journal=Mycologia |year=1969 |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=683–93 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0061/004/0683.htm |jstor=3757460 |doi=10.2307/3757460|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

<ref name="Smith 1968">{{cite book |vauthors=Smith AH, Hesler LR |title=The North American species of ''Pholiota'' |year=1968 |location=New York and London |publisher=Hafner Publishing Company |page=351 |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fung1tc/AGJ9559.0001.001/357?rgn=full+text;view=image}}</ref> </references>

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071101093137/http://www.mushrooms-millers.com/pages/about_us_dr_orson_k_miller_obituary.htm Obituary]

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