Carl Borivoj 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 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

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, (now a synonym of '' Euploca'' ) and ''Preslia'' Opiz, 1824 of the family

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(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 Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s from South America, belonging to the family Loasaceae which also honours Carl Borivoj Presl's name. Presl brothers grave Vysehrad Cemetery Prague CZ 805

Presl brothers grave Vysehrad Cemetery Prague CZ 805

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.

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

fern The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissue ...

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