Ladislav Hagara (born January 15, 1944) is a Slovak mycologist,[2][3] writer and author of mycological publications. He held the position of the Chairman of the Slovak Mycological Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and described a new fungal species variety.
His mushroomfield guides have sold over half a million copies[1][better source needed] across more than 35 editions[6] (in addition to Slovak also in Czech, French, German, Dutch and Hungarian),[7] and include Otto's Encyclopedia of Mushrooms, a field guide to mushrooms growing in the territory of Slovakia and Czechia, containing 4,200 photographs and descriptions of 3,230 species.[1] The Slovak names of more than 1000 of these species were created by Hagara.[1] As a part of his mycological scientific research, he has collected and processed more than 15,000 herbarium specimen of mushrooms.[5][better source needed] In 1990 he described and published a new variety of Infundibulicybe gibba var. adstringens.[8] The standard author abbreviationHagara is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9] He has also published several photo books about mushrooms.[5]
Hagara has also written several social-justice-themed short stories, and novels set in Slovak research institutions.
Publications
Fiction
Matej Hrebenda: Vlastný životopis = Matej Hrebenda: Biography (1976)
Kroky času = The Steps of Time (1979)
Arzén = Arsenic (1984)
Slnovrat = Solstice (1987)
Blíženci = Gemini (1990)
Uzly = Knots (1990)
Mycological works
Atlas húb = Field Guide of Mushrooms (1987)
Huby dvojníky = Mushroom Doubles (1992)
Veľký atlas húb = The Great Field Guide of Mushrooms (2005) by Hagara, Jiří Bajer, and Vladimír Antonín
Huby – Atlas = Mushrooms – A Field Guide (2006)
Ottova encyklopédia húb = Otto's Encyclopedia of Mushrooms (2014)
Huby – Atlas jedlých húb s osvedčenými receptami = Mushrooms – A Field Guide of Edible Mushrooms with Proven Recipes (2018) by Hagara, Oldřich Jindřich, and Aleš Vít