Czech naturalist
Josef Velenovský (22 April 1858 – 7 May 1949) was a Czech botanist, mycologist, pteridologist, and bryologist.[2] He also worked with fossils. He was a research investigator and professor in the Botanical Institute of the University of Prague, alternating with his colleague Ladislav Josef Čelakovský. He was also professor of botany at Charles University, where he concentrated in the study of mycology in the final half of his life. Velenovský collected innumerable specimens, particularly in new central Bohemia.[2][3] He was a prolific author (or coauthor) of new fungal species, having formally described about 2700 in his career.[4] Many of his type specimens and other collections are located in the herbarium of the Národní Museum of Prague.[5]
Eponymous taxa
- Notocactus velenovsky Frič (1891)
- Trifolium velenovskyi Vandas ex Velen. (1891)
- Tortula velenovskyi Schiffner (1893)
- Centaurea velenovskyi Adamović (1894)
- Astragalus velenovskyi Nábělek, (1923)
- Russula velenovskyi Melzer & Zvára (1927)
- Naucoria velenovskyi Pilát (1930)
- Galium velenovskyi Ančev (1975)
- Entoloma velenovskyi Noordel. (1979)
- Daphne velenovskyi Halda (1981)
- Hilpertia velenovskyi Schiffner & R.H.Zander (1989)
- Cortinarius velenovskyanus Moënne-Locc. & Reumaux (1997)
- Cyanus velenovskyi Adamović, Wagenitz & Greuter (2003)
- Mollisia velenovskyi Gminder (2006)
Selected publications
- Flora Bulgarica. Descriptio et enumeratio systematica plantarum vascularium in principatu Bulgariae sponte nascentium. Pragae: Prostat apud Fr. Řivnáč, bibliopolam. 1891.
- Flora Bulgarica: Descriptio et enumeratio systematica plantarum vascularium in Principatu Bulgariae sponte nascentium; Supplementum I. Pragae: Prostat apud Fr. Řivnáč, bibliopolam. 1898.
See also
References
- ^ J. D. B. (1910). "Bulgaria". The Encyclopaedia Britannica; A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. Vol. IV (BISHARIN to CALGARY) (11th ed.). Cambridge, England: At the University Press. p. 786. Retrieved 23 July 2023 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b c J.G.F.D. (1949). "Prof. J. Velenovsky". Nature. 163: 902. doi:10.1038/163902a0.
- ^ Krivka P. (2010). "Josef Velenovsky, a great Czech botanist, philosopher and politician". Phytologia Balcanica. 16 (2): 313 - 18. ISSN 1310-7771.
- ^ Lücking, Robert (2020). "Three challenges to contemporaneous taxonomy from a licheno-mycological perspective". Megataxa. 1 (1): 78–103 [85]. doi:10.11646/megataxa.1.1.16.
- ^ "Mycological Department - History and collections in detail". Národní Muzeum. Archived from the original on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Velen.
External links
- Botany.cz Biography (in Czech)
- Works by or about Josef Velenovský at Internet Archive
