Josef Velenovský (22 April 1858 – 7 May 1949) was a Czech
botanist
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,
mycologist
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,
pteridologist #REDIRECTFern
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, and
bryologist.
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
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, where he concentrated in the study of mycology in the final half of his life. Velenovský
collected innumerable specimens, particularly in new central
Bohemia
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.
He was a prolific author (or coauthor) of new fungal species, having
formally described about 2700 in his career.
Many of his
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specimens and other collections are located in the
herbarium
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The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sh ...
of the
Národní Museum of Prague.
Eponymous taxa
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Notocactus velenovsky''
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Trifolium velenovskyi''
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Tortula velenovskyi''
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Centaurea velenovskyi''
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Astragalus velenovskyi''
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Russula velenovskyi''
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Naucoria velenovskyi''
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Galium velenovskyi''
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Entoloma velenovskyi
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Daphne velenovskyi''
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Hilpertia velenovskyi''
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Cortinarius velenovskyanus''
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Cyanus velenovskyi''
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Mollisia velenovskyi''
Selected publications
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See also
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:Taxa named by Josef Velenovský
References
External links
Botany.czBiography (in Czech)
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20th-century Czech botanists
Czech mycologists
1858 births
1949 deaths
Charles University alumni
Botanists from Austria-Hungary
Czechoslovak botanists
19th-century Czech botanists
Czech people from Austria-Hungary
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