Zdeněk Pouzar (13 April 1932 – 4 June 2023) was a Czech

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and ...

. Along with František Kotlaba, he published several works about the

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polypore Polypores, also called bracket or shelf fungi, are a morphological group of basidiomycete-like gilled mushrooms and hydnoid fungi that form large fruiting bodies called conks, which are typically woody, circular, shelf- or bracket-shaped, ...

, corticioid, and gilled fungi. Pouzar was a noted expert on stromatic pyrenomycetes. Until 2012, he was the

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of the scientific journal '' Czech Mycology''. Pouzar died on 4 June 2023, at the age of 91.

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