Tscharna Rayss (1890-1965) was a Russian-Israeli

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

, phycologist, and

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

noted for studying species in the Mediterranean and Red Sea.

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1890 births 1965 deaths Israeli women scientists Israeli botanists Russian women scientists 20th-century Russian botanists Russian women botanists {{Israel-botanist-stub