Ladislav František Čelakovský (December 3, 1863 – December 31, 1916) was a Czech mycologist and botanist born in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...

. He was the son of botanist

Ladislav Josef Čelakovský Ladislav Josef Čelakovský (November 29, 1834 – November 24, 1902) was a Czech botanist born in Prague. He was the son of writer František Ladislav Čelakovský, and father to mycologist Ladislav František Čelakovský (1864-1916). He stud ...

(1834–1902). Čelakovský was a professor of plant physiology at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and was a specialist in research of

slime mold Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms with a life cycle that includes a free-living single-celled stage and the formation of spores. Spores are often produced in macroscopic mul ...

s. He was the author of an 1890 book on the phylum Myxomycota called ''České myxomycety''.

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