Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo

Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo (21 October 1928 – 1970) was a Brazilian mycologist. A Guggenheim Fellow, she worked at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and . Biography She was born on 21 October 1928 in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1964, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for comparative studies of Asiatic and American tropical fungi". She was awarded a second fellowship in 1966. She and her husband published O Dicionário Micológico (1967), for which they won the 1968 Academia Brasileira de Letras' João Ribeiro Award. The herbarium at Instituto de Botânica is called the Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo Herbarium. The Brazilian Society of Mycology began awarding the Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo Award in 2019.