Elias Tillandz

Elias Tillandz (1640–1693; born Tillander) was a Swedish medical doctor and botanist who worked in Finland.

He wrote the country's first botanical work, the Catalogus Plantarum, which was first published in 1673.

As a doctor he also prepared medicines for his patients by using his extensive knowledge of plants.

A genus of epiphytic plants, Tillandsia, was named after Tillandz by Carl Linnaeus.

This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Tillandz when citing a botanical name.