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Elias Magnus Fries

Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms (1794–1878)

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Lived 1794–1878, aged 84Sweden
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    1794–1878
    Aged 84
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Updated 2026-06-16

Elias Magnus Fries was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the "Linnaeus of Mycology". In his works he described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and lichen species, many of which remain authoritative today.

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