František Kotlaba is a Czech botanist and mycologist. His author abbreviation

Author citation (botany)

In botanical nomenclature, author citation refers to citing the person who validly published a botanical name, i.e. who first published the name while fulfilling the formal requirements as specified by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature...

 is Kotl.

Scientific career

After his degree in Natural Sciences and Pedagogy at the Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe and is also considered the earliest German university...

, Kotlaba received a post at the National Museum in Prague

National Museum (Prague)

The National museum is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded 1818 in Prague by Kašpar Maria Šternberg...

 in 1957. From 1962 to 1990 he was a scientific employee of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. The Academy is the leading non-university public research institution in the Czech Republic...

 at Průhonice

Průhonice

Průhonice is a village and municipality in Prague-West District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. -Notes:*This article was initially translated from the Czech Wikipedia....

. Kotlaba was for a long time in the editorial staff of the journal Mykologické listy and is the author of several books, some of which are of a popular scientific nature. The mycological journal Ceská 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

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of Polypores, Frantisekia, was named in his honour.

Research

Kotlaba's main research areas are taxonomy

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species, and arranging them into a classification. The field of taxonomy, sometimes referred to as "biological taxonomy", revolves around the description and use of taxonomic units, known as taxa...

 and geographical distribution and ecology of agarics and boletes. Apart from this he has published several works on mushroom conservation. With Zdenek Pouzar in 1972 he influenced fungal taxonomy by defining the mushroom families Entolomataceae

Entolomataceae

The Entolomataceae, also known as Rhodophyllaceae are a large family of pink spored terrestrial gilled mushrooms which includes the genera Entoloma, Rhodocybe, and Clitopilus. The family collectively contains over 1500 species, the large majority of which are in Entoloma...

and Pluteaceae

Pluteaceae

The Pluteaceae are a family of small to medium-sized mushrooms which have free gill attachment and pink spores. Members of Pluteaceae can be mistaken for members of Entolomatacae but can be distinguished by their angled spores and attached gills...

for the first time, in Ceská Mykologie. These family names are still currently in use.

Eponymous taxa

• Frantisekia Spirin & Zmitr. 2007
• Kotlabaea
  Kotlabaea
  Kotlabaea is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae.-External links:*...
  
  Svrček 1969
• Geastrum kotlabae V.J.Staněk 1958
• Junghuhnia kotlabae Pouzar 2003
• Pleurotus kotlabae Pilát 1953
• Tulostoma kotlabae Pouzar 1958

Weblinks

• Kotlaba, František and Index Fungorum