Władysław Wojewoda

Władysław Wojewoda (20 May 1932 in Przemyśl – 3 November 2010 in Kraków) was a Polish biologist, academic professor, expert in botanics and mycology.

[1] He graduated from Biology and Earth Sciences Faculty of Jagiellonian University in Kraków and began work on Department of Plant Systematics and Geography.

He earned a PhD with his work on “Macromycetes” of the Ojców National Park,[1] in 1989 became a professor of nature sciences.

His most important achievements are:[1] He established a mushroom collection in Institute of Botany that grew to over 53000 specimens.

Together with a fellow mycologist Barbara Gumińska [pl] they prepared an identification key of Polish macrofungi, his last work was „Laricifomes officinalis in the Gorce Mountains (S Poland)”.