Albert Pilát

Albert Pilát (1903 - 1974)

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Biography

Pilát studied natural history at the Universitatis Carolinae in Prague, working for Velenovsky. He received his doctorate in 1926 and hung around the university until 1928, when he was apponted professor at the state agricultural school in Melnice. He held a variety of posts, eventually ending up in the botany department of the Prague National Museum, where he stayed until the end of his life.

Photo of Trametes versicolor by John Denk

Pilát wrote many popular and technical books, monographing the genera Pleurotus, Crepidotus, Lentinus, and Agaricus, and publishing on the systematics of (at one time or another) all the holobasidiomycetes. He was also very interested in interactions between fungi and each other, and with the environment in general, publishing his Atlas of european mushrooms series, and his work on the ecological interactions the fungi.

Sources

Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)

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Selected Publications

Albert Pilát (1924) "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Thelephoraceen: I. Die Cyphellaceen" (Contributions towards understanding of the Thelephoraceae The Cyphellaceae) in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 22:1 pp. 204 - 218

Covers Cyphella and Solenia

Albert Pilát (1925) "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Thelephoraceen: Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der tschechoslowakischen Cyphellaceen" (Contributions towards understanding of the Thelephoraceae Second contribution towards understanding of the Cyphelleae) in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 22:1 pp. 204 - 218

Albert Pilát (1925) "Revision der zentraleuropäischen resupinaten Arten der Gattung Irpex Fr." (Revision of the central european resupinate species of the genus Irpex Fries) in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 23:3 pp. 302 - 307

Albert Pilát (1926) "Monographie der mitteleuropäischen Aleurodiscineen" (Monograph of the central european Aleurodiscineae) in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 24:3 pp. 203 - 230

Albert Pilát (1930) "Cesklovenske drevni houby: I. Stereum Pers." (Stereum Persoon) in Cesklovenská Akademie Zemedelská Sborník 5:3 pp. 361 - 420

Albert Pilát (1931) "Monographie der europäischen Polyporaceen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung zur Landwirtschaft" (Monograph of the european Polyporaceae with particular consideration to land management) in Beihefte zum Botanischen Zentralblatt (or Centralblatt) (Reports of the Central Newspaper of Botany) 48 pp. 404 - 436

Albert Pilát (1935) Atlas des champignons de l'Europe: Pleurotus Fries (Monograph of the genus Pleurotus)

Albert Pilát (1936 - 1942) Atlas des champignons de l'Europe: Polyporaceae (Monograph of the Polypores)

Albert Pilát (1969) Houby Ceskoslovenska ve svém zivotním prostredí (Mushrooms of Czechoslovakia in their Environment)
Albert Pilát (1974) Hríbovité huby

A coffee-table book on mushrooms

Species

Agaricus fuscofibrillosus (F. A. G. J. Möller) Pilát
Inonotus obliquus (Persoon: Fries) Pilát
Phellinus rimosus (Berkeley) Pilát
Trametes conchifer (Schweinitz: Fries) Pilát
Trametes hirsuta (Wulfen: Fries) Pilát
Trametes versicolor (Linnaeus: Fries) Pilát

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