Pier Antonio Micheli (1679-1737) was a Catholic priest and Italian botanist. He studied under Bruno Tozzi and in 1706 was appointed botanist to Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Micheli’s Nova plantarum genera was published in 1729 and marked a development in the knowledge of fungi.
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