Victor Fayod (23 November, 1860–28 April, 1900) was a Swiss mycologist. He is credited with the first description of the mushroom Cystoderma amianthinum. He studied in Lausanne and Zurich. Fayod first worked with Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831–1888) in Strasbourg from 1881 to 1882, then as a tutor. He also assisted French bacteriologist André Chantemesse (1851–1919) in Paris. Fayod's work focused primarily on the Hymenomycetes; he described the formation of a drop of liquid preceding spore discharge in the Basidiomycetes.[1]