Elias Magnus Fries

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Elias Magnus Fries (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the "Linnaeus of Mycology". In his works he described and assigned botanical names to thousands of fungus and lichen species, many of which remain authoritative today.

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