Italy: Pier Antonio Micheli (1679 - 1737), Italian botanist. 19th century statue outside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. Sculpted by Vincenzo Consani. (2016)

Pier Antonio Micheli (December 11, 1679 – January 1, 1737) was a noted Italian botanist, 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.

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