Thore Christian Elias Fries Explained

Thore Christian Elias Fries (3 November 1886 – 31 December 1930 son of Theodor Magnus Fries and brother of Robert Elias Fries)[1] was Professor of Systematic Botany at Lund University. He specialised in lichenology and plant geography. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation

T.C.E.Fr. when citing a botanical name.[2] He did his field work and travelled in India and Africa[3]

He was a member of the British Mycological Society and associated with many botanical gardens and other museums.[4] [5]

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  1. Web site: Author Details . 2008-05-06 . International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI) . IPNI . International Plant Names Index .
  2. Book: Brummitt, R. K.. C. E. Powell . Authors of Plant Names . . 1992 . 1-84246-085-4.
  3. Web site: The Fries Family of Botanists . Anders Backlund . 2008-05-06 . 2006-02-03 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071209081753/http://www.systbot.uu.se/information/history/fries.htm . 2007-12-09.
  4. 000002742 . Fries, Thore Christian Elias (1886–1931) . Aluka . Aluka . African Plants . Ithaka Harbors, Inc.
  5. Book: Gunn , Mary . L. E. Codd . L. E. W. Codd . Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa: an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora . 1981 . . 0-86961-129-1 . 400 pages . Dictionary of Plant Collectors . https://books.google.com/books?id=mkfdQ3l1YQUC&pg=PT179.