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Derek Agutter Reid was an English mycologist.
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- ↑ Reid DA. (1986). "New or interesting records of Australian Basidiomycetes". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 86 (3): 429–40. doi:10.1016/S0007-1536(86)80186-3.
