Carl Borivoj Presl ( cs, Karel Bořivoj Presl; 17 February 1794 – 2 October 1852) was a

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Presl lived his entire life in

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, and was a professor of botany at the University of Prague (1833–52).BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications He made an expedition to

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in 1817, and with his brother, published a "Flora bohemica" titled "''Flora čechica: indicatis medicinalibus, oeconomicis technologicisque plantis''" in 1819. His older brother

Jan Svatopluk Presl Jan Svatopluk Presl (4 September 1791 – 6 April 1849) was a Czech natural scientist. He was the brother of botanist Carl Borivoj Presl (1794–1852). The Czech Botanical Society commemorated the two brothers by naming its principal publication ...

was also a noted botanist; the journal ''

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'' of the

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is named in their honor. The botanical genera ''Preslaea''

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, 1827 from the family

Boraginaceae Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees and herbs in 146, to 156 genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single family of the ...

, (now a synonym of ''

Euploca ''Euploca'' is an almost cosmopolitan genus of plants with around 100 species. It was first described by Thomas Nuttall in 1837. While part of the broadly defined Boraginaceae in the APG IV system from 2016, a revision of the order Boraginales f ...

'' ) and ''Preslia'' Opiz, 1824 of the family

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(it is also now a synonym of '' Woodsia'' ) are dedicated to the two brothers. In 2006, botanists (Urb. & Gilg) Weigend published '' Presliophytum'', a genus of

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s from South America, belonging to the family

Loasaceae Loasaceae is a family of 15–20 genera and about 200–260 species of flowering plants in the order Cornales, native to the Americas and Africa. Members of the family include annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants, and a few shrubs ...

which also honours Carl Borivoj Presl's name. Presl brothers grave Vysehrad Cemetery Prague CZ 805

He spent nearly 15 years producing the

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"Reliquiae Haenkeanae" (published from 1825 to 1835), a work based on botanical specimens collected in the Americas by

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* Carl Bořivoj Presl: "Reliquiae Haenkeanae : seu descriptiones et icones plantarum, quas in America meridionali et boreali, in insulis Philippinis et Marianis collegit Thaddaeus Haenke". J.G. Calve, Prague, 1825 to 1835. * "Flora sicula, exhibens plantas vasculosas in Sicilia aut sponte crescentes aut frequentissime cultas, secundum systema naturale digestas", 1826. * "Symbolae botanicae, sive, Descriptiones et icones plantarum novarum aut minus cognitarum", 1832. * "Catalogue of Ferns: After the Arrangement of C. Sprengel", 1841; Whittaker and Company, 1841. * ''Hymenophyllaceae'', 1845 – Monograph on

Hymenophyllaceae The Hymenophyllaceae, the filmy ferns and bristle ferns, are a family of two to nine genera (depending on classification system) and about 650 known species of ferns, with a subcosmopolitan distribution, but generally restricted to very damp pla ...

. * "Supplementum Tentaminis Pteridographiae", 1847. * ''Die Gefässbündel im Stipes der Farrn'', 1848 – The vascular bundles in the stipes of

fern A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes exce ...

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