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Robert Elias Fries

Robert Elias Fries (Klas) Robert Elias Fries (11 July 1876, Uppsala [ 1 ] – 29 January 1966, Stockholm ), [ 2 ] the youngest son of Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913) and grandson...

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Robert Elias Fries

(Klas) Robert Elias Fries (11 July 1876, Uppsala[1] – 29 January 1966, Stockholm),[2] the youngest son of Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913) and grandson of Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878)[3] and an expert on mushrooms.[4] A Swedish botanist who was a member of the British Mycological Society and involved with The Botanical Museum (UPS), Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Natural History Museum (BM), the National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR), Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K),the Swedish Museum of Natural History Department of Phanerogamic Botany (S) and the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution (US).[5]

A collector of plants from 1901 through 1923 in Europe: Sweden; Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tropical South America: Bolivia; Temperate South America: Argentina. He sometimes worked with his father and his brother Thore Christian Elias Fries (1886–1931).[5]

He was part of the Swedish 1901–1902 expedition to Argentina and Bolivia, crossing the desert of Chaco, and the Andes.[4]

In 1916, Fries married Nanna Curman, daughter of professor Carl Curman and Calla Curman; their son Sigurd Fries was a linguist.

Professor Bergianus at the Bergius Foundation in Stockholm and head of its garden, Bergianska trädgården. He published works on mycology, plant geography, and systematics.[3] This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviationR.E.Fr. when citing a botanical name.[6]

See also

  • Category:Taxa named by Robert Elias Fries

References

  1. ↑ Organización Internacional de Información sobre Plantas (IOPI) . "Detalles del autor" . Índice Internacional de Nombres de Plantas . Consultado el 6 de mayo de 2008 .
  2. ↑ "Robert Elias Fries". Taxon . 15 (3). Asociación Internacional de Taxonomía de Plantas (IAPT): 128. Marzo de 1966. JSTOR 1216641 . 
  3. 1 2 Anders Backlund (2006-02-03). "La familia Fries de botánicos" . Universidad de Uppsala . Recuperado el 2008-05-06 .
  4. 1 2 "Fries, Robert Elias" (en francés). 2004-06-21 . Consultado el 2008-05-06 .
  5. 1 2 Aluka . "Fries, (Klas) Robert Elias (1876–1966)" . Plantas africanas . Ithaka Harbors, Inc . Recuperado el 6 de mayo de 2008 .
  6. ↑ Brummitt, RK; CE Powell (1992). Autores de nombres de plantas . Jardines Botánicos Reales de Kew . ISBN 1-84246-085-4.