František_Kotlába

František Kotlaba

František Kotlaba

Czech botanist and mycologist (1927–2020)

František Kotlaba (20 May 1927 in Vlastiboř – 11 June 2020 in Prague[1][2]) was a Czech botanist and mycologist.[3]

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Scientific career

After his degree in Natural Sciences and Pedagogy at the Charles University in Prague, Kotlaba received a post at the National Museum in Prague in 1957. From 1962 to 1990 he was a scientific employee of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic at Průhonice.[4] Kotlaba was for a long time in the editorial staff of the journal Mykologické listy and was the author of several books, some of a popular scientific nature.

Honours

Kotlabaea which is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae was published by Mirko Svrček in 1969, was named in his honour.[5][6] The mycological journal Česká Mykologie, to which he made numerous contributions, dedicated an edition to him on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in 2007. Also in 2007, a genus of Polypores, Frantisekia was named after him.[7][8][9]

Research

Kotlaba's main research areas were taxonomy and geographical distribution and ecology of agarics and boletes. Apart from this he has published several works on mushroom conservation.[10] With Zdenek Pouzar in 1972 he influenced fungal taxonomy by defining the mushroom families Entolomataceae and Pluteaceae for the first time, in Ceská Mykologie.[11][12] These family names are still currently in use.

The standard author abbreviation Kotl. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[13]

Eponymous taxa

References

  1. [1]
    "Zemřel čestný člen naší společnosti RNDr. František Kotlaba, CSc". Czech mycology site (in Czech). Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  2. [2]
    "Smuteční oznámení". Czech Mycological Society site (in Czech). Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  3. [3]
    This page was started by translating from the German page.
  4. [4]
    www.vesmir.cz Downloaded 24 November 2009.
  5. [5]
    Lindemann, Uwe & Vega, Marcel & Alvarado, Pablo. (2015). Revision der Gattung Kotlabaea: K. deformis, K. delectans und K. benkertii. Zeitschrift für Mykologie. 81. 373-402.
  6. [6]
    Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  7. [7]
    Wjacheslav Spirin, Ivan Zmitrovich: Frantisekia – a new polypore genus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota). In: Ceská Mykologie 59(1)/2007. S. 141–151.
  8. [8]
    See the entry in Index Fungorum. However, in Species Fungorum Frantisekia is not given as the current name.
  9. [9]
    "Frantisekia Spirin & Zmitr". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  10. [10]
    Frantisek Kotlaba (b. 1927) www.mushroomthejournal.com, downloaded on 24 November 2009.
  11. [11]
    Kotlába, F.; Pouzar, Z., 1972, Ceská Mykologie 26(4): 218
  12. [12]
    See, for example, the Index Fungorum entry for Entolomataceae.
  13. [13]
    International Plant Names Index.  Kotl.
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