Ladislav (Laco) Mucina (born 28 May 1956), Slovakia-born botanist and vegetation scientist.

IPNI standard form: Mucina

Taxon names authored

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• 88 taxon names authored by Ladislav Mucina

Publications

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• Kadereit, G., Ball, P., Beer, S., Mucina, L., Sokoloff, D., Teege, P., Yaprak, A.E. & Freitag, H. 2007. A taxonomic nightmare comes true: phylogeny and biogeography of glassworts (Salicornia L., Chenopodiaceae). Taxon 56(4): 1143–1170. Reference page. 

• Steffen, S., Mucina, L. & Kadereit, G. 2009. Three new species of Sarcocornia (Chenopodiaceae) from South Africa. Kew Bulletin 64(3): 447–459. Reference page. 

• Köcke, A.V., Mering, S. v., Mucina, L. & Kadereit, J.W. 2010. Revision of the Mediterranean and Southern African Triglochin bulbosa complex (Juncaginaceae). Edinburgh Journal of Botany 67(3): 353–398. DOI: 10.1017/S0960428610000041 ResearchGate Reference page. 

• Steffen, S., Mucina, L. & Kadereit, G. 2010. Revision of Sarcocornia (Chenopodiaceae) in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique. Systematic Botany 35(2): 390–408. Reference page. 

• Slenzka, A., Mucina, L. & Kadereit, G. 2013. Salicornia L. (Amaranthaceae) in South Africa and Namibia: rapid spread and ecological diversification of cryptic species. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 175–186. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12041 Reference page. 

• Steffen, S., Ball, P., Mucina, L. & Kadereit, G. 2015. Phylogeny, biogeography and ecological diversification of Sarcocornia (Salicornioideae, Amaranthaceae). Annals of Botany 115(3): 353–368. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu260 Reference page. 

• Mucina, L. 2017. Caroxylon (Chenopodiaceae s.str.) in continental southern Africa and Madagascar: a preliminary nomenclatural synopsis and biogeographical considerations. Phytotaxa 312(2): 151–178. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.312.2.1 Reference page. 

• Hammer, T.A., Macintyre, P.D., Nge, F.J., Davis, R.W., Mucina, L. & Thiele, K.R. 2018. The noble and the exalted: a multidisciplinary approach to resolving a taxonomic controversy within Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 31(3): 262–280. DOI: 10.1071/SB17062 Reference page. 

• Takawira-Nyenya, R., Mucina, L, Cardinal-McTeague, W.M. & Thiele, K.R. 2018. Sansevieria (Asparagaceae, Nolinoideae) is a herbaceous clade within Dracaena: inference from non-coding plastid and nuclear DNA sequence data. Phytotaxa 376(6): 254–276. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.376.6.2 Reference page. 

• Mucina, L. & Hammer, T.A. 2019. Limonium dagmarae (Plumbaginaceae), a new species from Namaqualand coast, South Africa. Phytotaxa 403(2): 71–85. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.403.2.1 Reference page.