Flora Europaea

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Flora Europaea is a work on European plants, the five volumes of which were published by Cambridge University Press between 1964 and 1993. Flora Europaea describes around 10,500 vascular plants - species of Europe-in English.

history

The first informal discussions about the creation of a Flora Europaea took place on the occasion of the fifth International Botanical Congress in Paris in 1954. In early 1956, the University of Leicester decided to found the Flora Europaea Organization with an editorial committee, advisory editors and regional advisors. The organization was placed under the umbrella of the Linnean Society of London .

Eight Flora Europaea - symposia organized, the first in 1959, the last in 1977. Under the title Notulae ad Floram Europaeam spectantes published a series of short articles that from 1961 to 1970 in the journal Feddes repertory , 1971-1978 in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society appeared.

The project was largely funded by the UK Science Research Council and to a lesser extent by other European research funding organizations. The publication of the second edition of the first volume was largely financed from the proceeds from the sales of the volumes published up to then.

Members of the editorial committee were Thomas Gaskell Tutin (1908–1987), Vernon Hilton Heywood (* 1927), Norman Alan Burges (1911–2002), David Moresby Moore (* 1933) (from 1965), David Henriques Valentine (1912– 1987), Stuart Max Walters (1920-2005) and David Allardice Webb (1912-1994). Arthur Oliver Chater (* 1933) and John Richard Edmondson (* 1948) were accepted into the editorial committee for the publication of the first volume in the second edition .

The five volumes of Flora Europaea were published between 1964 and 1980, a checklist of all species with chromosome numbers in 1982 and a general register in 1983. The first volume appeared in 1993 in a revised second edition. A database with a checklist of all species treated in Flora Europaea , their synonyms and their distribution information was published on the Internet . A CD-ROM edition with unchanged content with volumes 2 to 5 and 1 (2nd edition) appeared in 2001, a paperback edition with reprint of the same volumes in 2010.

The Flora Europaea Organization ceased its work in the 1990s and joined the Euro + Med Plantbase project, which was geographically expanded to include North Africa and the Middle East .

Volumes

  • Flora Europaea on CD-ROM. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, ISBN 0-521-77811-5 .
  • Flora Europaea, 5 Volume Paperback Set. 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-15406-2 (unchanged reprint as paperback edition).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JR Akeroyd: The revision of Flora Europaea Volume I. In: Lagascalia 15 (Extra), 1988: 453–456, ( (PDF). )
  2. ^ TG Tutin et al .: A short history of the Flora Europaea project. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20108-X , pp. XVII – XX (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ TG Tutin, NA Burges, AO Chater, JR Edmondson, VH Heywood, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . 2nd, revised edition. Volume 1: Psilotaceae to Platanaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York / Melbourne 1993, ISBN 0-521-41007-X (English).
  4. ↑ Flora Europaea to Euro + Med PlantBase

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