Flora Europaea

Flora Europaea is a work about European plants, whose five volumes were published 1964-1993 by Cambridge University Press. Flora Europaea describes in English about 10,500 species of vascular plants in Europe.

History

First informal discussions on the creation of a Flora Europaea found on the fifth International Botanical Congress in Paris in 1954 instead. Early 1956 the founding of the Flora Europaea organization with an editorial committee, advisory editors and regional advisers was decided at the University of Leicester. The organization was placed under the umbrella of the Linnean Society of London.

There were eight Flora Europaea - symposia, the first in 1959, the last in 1977. Entitled Notulae ad Floram Europaeam spectantes a series of short articles was published, from 1961 to 1970 in the journal Feddes Repertorium, 1971-1978 in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society appeared.

The project was largely funded by the UK Science Research Council, 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 of sales of previously published volumes.

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

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

The Flora Europaea Organization introduced in the 1990s, her work and went into the to North Africa and the Middle East geographically extended project Euro Med Plant Base on.

Volumes

  • TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb ( eds.): Flora Europaea. Volumes 1-5, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge from 1964 to 1980. Volume 1: Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae. 1964, ISBN 0-521-06661-1.
  • Volume 1: Psilotaceae to Platanaceae. 2nd, revised. Edition. 1993, ISBN 0 - 521-41007 -X ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Volume 2: Rosaceae to Umbelliferae. 1968, ISBN 0 - 521-06662 -X ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae. 1972, ISBN 0 - 521-08489 -X ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Volume 4: Plantaginaceae to Compositae ( and Rubiaceae ). 1976, ISBN 0-521-08717-1 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae ( Monocotyledones ). 1980, ISBN 0 - 521-20108 -X ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • 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 ( unaltered reprint in paperback ).
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