Conclusion

Though these plates of mushrooms only represent a small part of Claude Aubriet’s complete works, they are of the utmost importance to the history of mycological illustration. Aubriet improved the realism of the representations and contributed to increasing the preeminent role of illustration in the research work of scholars (such as Antoine de Jussieu). It is a fact that the history of mycology rarely remembered the name of Aubriet, but his contribution (always discreet, as the man, and a lit..