Flora Europaea

Flora Europaea

Flora Europaea vol 2 front cover
Author	eds. T. G. Tutin, V. H. Heywood, N. A. Burges, D. H. Valentine, S. M. Walters, D. A. Webb
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	6 December 2001
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Hardback (5 vols) + CD
Pages	2392
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.

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.

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.

Published 1964

ISBN 0-521-06662-X

ISBN 978-0-521-06662-4

Published : 1 Dec 1968 (486 pages)

ISBN 0-521-08489-X

ISBN 978-0-521-08489-5

Published : 28 Dec 1972 (399 pages)

ISBN 0-521-08717-1

ISBN 978-0-521-08717-9

Published: 5 Aug 1976 (534 pages)

ISBN 0-521-20108-X

ISBN 978-0-521-20108-7

Published: 3 April 1980 (476 pages)

ISBN 0-521-41007-X

ISBN 978-0-521-41007-6

Published: 22 April 1993 (629 pages)

ISBN 0-521-80570-8

ISBN 978-0-521-80570-4

Published: 6 Dec 2001 (2392 pages)

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

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:

Albania - F. Markgraf Austria - E. Janchen, K. H. Rechinger Belgium - A. Lawalrée Bulgaria - N. Stojanov Czechoslovakia - J. Dostál Denmark - T. W. Bōcher Finland - J. Jalas France - H. Gaussen, P. Jovet

Germany - H. Merxmüller, W. Rothmaler Greece - K. H. Rechinger Hungary - R. Soó, S. Jávorka Iceland - I. Óskarsson Italy - R. E. G. Pichi-Sermolli Jugoslavia - E. Mayer Netherlands - S. J. Van Ooststroom Norway - R. Nordhagen

Poland - B. Pawlowski Portugal - A. R. Pinto da Silva Romania - A. Borza, E. I. Nyárády Spain - E. Guinea, Oriol de Bolòs Sweden - N. Hylander Switzerland - E. Landolt Turkey - P. H. Davis U.S.S.R. - B. K. Schischkin, Andrey A. Fedorov

• Species Plantarum – the first attempt at an encyclopedia of plants

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

Two Letter Code	Geographical Region
Al	Albania
Au	Austria with Liechtenstein
Az	Açores (Azores)
Be	Belgium
Bl	Islas Baleares (Balearic Islands)
Br	Great Britain, including Orkney, Zetland and Isle of Man; excluding Channel Islands and Northern Ireland
Bu	Bulgaria
Co	Corse (Corsica)
Cr	Kriti (Creta) (Crete) with Karpathos, Kasos and Gavdhos
Cz	Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovak Republic)
Da	Denmark
Fa	Færöer (Faroe Islands)
Fe	Finland (Fennia), including Ahvenanmaa (Åland)
Ga	France (Gallia), with the Channel Islands (Îles Normandes) and Monaco; excluding Corse (Corsica)
Ge	Germany
Gr	Greece, excluding those islands included under Kriti (Crete) (supra) and those outside Europe as defined for Flora Europaea
Hb	Ireland (Hibernia); both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
He	Switzerland (Helvetia)
Ho	Netherlands (Hollandia)
Hs	Spain (Hispania) with Gibraltar and Andorra; excluding Islas Baleares (Balearic Islands)
Hu	Hungary
Is	Iceland (Islandia)
It	Italy, including the Arcipelago Toscano; excluding Sardegna and Sicilia
Ju	Jugoslavia (Yugoslavia)
Lu	Portugal (Lusitania)
No	Norway
Po	Poland
Rm	Romania
Rs	Territories 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
Sa	Sardegna (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)

• Flora Europaea front matter at Cambridge U P
• Flora Europaea — online edition (database)
• Atlas Florae Europaea Helsinki-based group creating maps to complement the Flora Europaea