The Broterian Society ( pt, Sociedade Broteriana) is a

botanical Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

scientific society, the first of its kind in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

, established in 1880 by Júlio Henriques, professor of Botany and Agriculture at the

University of Coimbra The University of Coimbra (UC; pt, Universidade de Coimbra, ) is a Public university, public research university in Coimbra, Portugal. First established in Lisbon in 1290, it went through a number of relocations until moving permanently to Coi ...

, to promote the development of botanical studies, particularly that of floristics, in Portugal. It is thus named after eminent naturalist

Félix de Avelar Brotero Félix de Avelar Brotero (25 November 1744 – 4 August 1828) was a Portuguese botanist and professor. He fled to France in 1788 to escape persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition, and there published his ''Compendio de Botanica'' in order to ear ...

, author of the first lengthy description of native Portuguese plants, ''Flora Lusitanica'', in 1804. It has continuously published the ''Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana'' (''Bol. Soc. Brot.''), a scientific journal, since its inception; the first volume was published in 1883.''Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana'' - Biblioteca Digital de Botânica (Universidade de Coimbra)
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