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Pier Antonio Micheli
Italian botanist (1679–1737) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pier Antonio Micheli (11 December 1679 – 1 January 1737) was a noted Italian botanist,[1] professor of botany in Pisa, curator of the Orto Botanico di Firenze, author of Nova plantarum genera iuxta Tournefortii methodum disposita. He discovered the spores of mushrooms, was a leading authority on cryptogams, and coined several important genera of microfungi including Aspergillus and Botrytis.