About Victor Fayod
Lived 1860 – 1900 (aged 39–40). Victor Fayod was a Swiss botanist and mycologist.
Victor Fayod (23 November 1860 – 28 April 1900) was a Swiss mycologist who created an influential novel classification of the agaric fungi and described a number of new genera and species.
Biographical overview Fayod was born on 23 November 1860 in Salaz, a small locality close to the municipality of Bex in the Swiss canton of Vaud. He was a grandson of a famous Swiss geologist, Johann von Charpentier. as was the species Pluteus fayodii (which may be identical to the similar species Pluteus leoninus).
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Who was Victor Fayod?
Swiss mycologist (1860-1900)
When was Victor Fayod born?
Victor Fayod was born in 1860 in Ollon.
When did Victor Fayod die?
Victor Fayod died on 28 April 1900 in Blois.
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Victor Fayod was a botanist and mycologist.
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Victor Fayod was Swiss.
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