Flora Europaea

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Flora Europaea
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Flora Europaea vol 2 front cover
Authoreds. T. G. Tutin,
V. H. Heywood,
N. A. Burges,
D. H. Valentine,
S. M. Walters,
D. A. Webb
CountryUnited Kingdom
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date
6 December 2001
Media typeHardback (5 vols) + CD
Pages2392
ISBN 978-0-521-80570-4

The Flora Europaea is a 5-volume encyclopedia of plants, published between 1964 and 1993 by Cambridge University Press. The aim was to describe all the national Floras of Europe in a single, authoritative publication to help readers identify any wild or widely cultivated plant in Europe to the subspecies level. It also provides information on geographical distribution, habitat preference, and chromosome number, where known.

Contents

The Flora was released in CD form in 2001, and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh have made an index to the plant names available online.

History

The idea of a pan-European Flora was first mooted at the 8th International Congress of Botany in Paris in 1954. [1] In 1957, Britain's Science and Engineering Research Council provided grants to fund a secretariat of three people, [2] and Volume 1 was published in 1964. More volumes were issued in the following years, culminating in 1980 with the monocots of Volume 5. The royalties were put into a trust fund administered by the Linnean Society, which allowed funding for Dr John Akeroyd to continue work on the project. [3] A revised Volume 1 was launched at the Linnean Society on 11 March 1993.

Volumes

Volume 1 : Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae

Published 1964

Volume 2: Rosaceae to Umbelliferae

ISBN   0-521-06662-X
ISBN   978-0-521-06662-4
Published : 1 Dec 1968 (486 pages)

Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae

ISBN   0-521-08489-X
ISBN   978-0-521-08489-5
Published : 28 Dec 1972 (399 pages)

Volume 4: Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae)

ISBN   0-521-08717-1
ISBN   978-0-521-08717-9
Published: 5 Aug 1976 (534 pages)

Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae

ISBN   0-521-20108-X
ISBN   978-0-521-20108-7
Published: 3 April 1980 (476 pages)

Volume 1 Revised: Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae

ISBN   0-521-41007-X
ISBN   978-0-521-41007-6
Published: 22 April 1993 (629 pages)

5 Volume Set and CD-ROM Pack

ISBN   0-521-80570-8
ISBN   978-0-521-80570-4
Published: 6 Dec 2001 (2392 pages)

Editors

The editors named on every edition are :

Tom Tutin (1908–1987) – Professor of Botany at University of Leicester
Vernon Heywood (b. 1927) – Chief Scientist, Plant Conservation, IUCN and professor emeritus at University of Reading
Alan Burges (1911–2002) – Professor of Botany at University of Liverpool
David Valentine (1912–1987) – Professor of Botany at Durham University until 1966, then at University of Manchester

For the Revised Edition of Volume 1 only :

David Moore (1933–2013) – Professor Emeritus at University of Reading

For the CD set only :

Max Walters (1920–2005) – Director, Cambridge University Botanic Garden
David Webb (1912–1994) – Professor of Botany at Trinity College, Dublin

Regional advisers

A panel of regional advisers was formed, in order to ensure full coverage of the whole of Europe. Several of the advisers were also authors in their respective taxonomic specialities. For each country the representatives were:

See also

Geographical Codes

The geographical distribution is indicated by a series of two letter codes.

Two Letter CodeGeographical Region
Al Albania
Au Austria with Liechtenstein
AzAçores (Azores)
Be Belgium
BlIslas Baleares (Balearic Islands)
BrGreat Britain, including Orkney, Zetland and Isle of Man; excluding Channel Islands and Northern Ireland
Bu Bulgaria
CoCorse (Corsica)
CrKriti (Creta) (Crete) with Karpathos, Kasos and Gavdhos
CzCzechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovak Republic)
Da Denmark
FaFæröer (Faroe Islands)
Fe Finland (Fennia), including Ahvenanmaa (Åland)
GaFrance (Gallia), with the Channel Islands (Îles Normandes) and Monaco; excluding Corse (Corsica)
GeGermany
Gr Greece, excluding those islands included under Kriti (Crete) (supra) and those outside Europe as defined for Flora Europaea
HbIreland (Hibernia); both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
He Switzerland (Helvetia)
HoNetherlands (Hollandia)
HsSpain (Hispania) with Gibraltar and Andorra; excluding Islas Baleares (Balearic Islands)
Hu Hungary
Is Iceland (Islandia)
ItItaly, including the Arcipelago Toscano; excluding Sardegna and Sicilia
JuJugoslavia (Yugoslavia)
LuPortugal (Lusitania)
NoNorway
PoPoland
Rm Romania
RsTerritories of the former U.S.S.R.
Rs(N)Northern Division: Arctic Europe, Karelo-Lapland, Dvina-Pecora
Rs(B)Baltic Division: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kaliningradskaja Oblast'
Rs(C)Central Division: Ladoga-Ilmen, Upper Volga, Volga-Kama, Upper Dnepr, Volga-Don, Ural
Rs(W)South-western Division: Moldavia, Middle Dnepr, Black Sea, Upper Dnestr
Rs(K)Krym (Crimea)
Rs(E)South-eastern Division: Lower Don, Lower Volga Region, Transvolga
SaSardegna (Sardinia)
Sb Svalbard, comprising Spitsbergen, Björnöya (Bear Island) and Jan Mayen
Si Sicilia, with Pantelleria, Isole Pelagie, Isole Lipari and Ustica; also the Malta archipelago
Su Sweden (Suecia), including Öland and Gotland
Tu Turkey (European part), including Gökçeada (Imroz)

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