Carl Borivoj Presl (; 17 February 1794 – 2 October 1852) was a
Czech
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botanist
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Biography
Presl lived his entire life in
Prague
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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
Sicily
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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 was also a noted botanist; the journal ''
Preslia'' of the
Czech Botanical Society is named in their honor. The botanical genera ''Preslaea''
Mart.
Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botany, botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His m ...
, 1827 from the family
Boraginaceae
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The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single famil ...
, (now a synonym of ''
Euploca'' ) and ''Preslia''
Opiz, 1824 of the family
Lamiaceae
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or Labiatae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle, or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil (herb), ba ...
(it is also now a synonym of ''
Woodsia
''Woodsia'' is a genus of ferns in the family Woodsiaceae. Species of ''Woodsia'' are commonly known as cliff ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it was the only genus in the family Woodsiaceae. In ...
'' ) are dedicated to the two brothers.
[ In 2006, botanists (Urb. & Gilg) Weigend published '' Presliophytum'', a genus of ]flowering plant
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s from South America, belonging to the family Loasaceae which also honours Carl Borivoj Presl's name.
He spent nearly 15 years producing the exsiccata
Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...
"Reliquiae Haenkeanae" (published from 1825 to 1835), a work based on botanical specimens collected in the Americas by Thaddaeus Haenke.[Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany. ]
See also
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* Jan Svatopluk Presl (J.Presl, 1791–1849) — Czech chemist/mineralogist/botanist, and older brother of Carl Presl.
References
Bibliography
* 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.
* "Supplementum Tentaminis Pteridographiae", 1847.
* ''Die Gefässbündel im Stipes der Farrn'', 1848 – The vascular bundles in the stipes of fern
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