Ruth Ellen Berkeley was an English mycologist, collector of fungi specimens and scientific botanical illustrator.[1][2] She is known for her specimen collections as well as her illustrations of British fungi particularly in Mordecai Cubitt Cooke’s book Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes).[3] Her father, the mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley, named a fungal species Agaricus ruthae (now known as Pleurotus ruthae) in her honour.
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