Victor Fayod

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.Fayod was born on 23 November 1860 in Salaz, a small locality close to the municipality of Bex in the Swiss canton of Vaud.[2] After attending school in Bex and Lausanne, he studied mathematics and later silviculture at the polytechnic institute ETH Zurich.He worked in a series of biology-related jobs in Bad Cannstatt, Normandy, Nervi, the Valli Valdesi (a region of the Cottian Alps), and Genoa.[6] He recognized the influence of Darwinism on botany and devised a new classification of gilled fungi, based for the first time on microscopic features such as basidia, cystidia, and spores.
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