Special issue dedicated to the centenary of the Czech Botanical Society (1912–2012)
FLORA AND VEGETATION OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
FLÓRA A VEGETACE ČESKÉ REPUBLIKY
Edited by Petr Pyšek, Zdeněk Kaplan, Milan Chytrý & Jiří Danihelka
Preslia 84: 391–862
Flora and vegetation of the Czech Republic: introduction to special issue
dedicated to the centenary of the Czech Botanical Society
Flóra a vegetace České republiky: zvláštní číslo věnované 100. výročí České botanické společnosti
Milan C h y t r ý
1
, Petr P y š e k
2,3
, Zdeněk K a p l a n
2
& Jiří D a n i h e l k a
1,2
1
Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno,
Czech Republic, e-mail: chytry@sci.muni.cz, danihel@sci.muni.cz;
2
Institute of Botany,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic,
e-mail: pysek@ibot.cas.cz, kaplan@ibot.cas.cz;
3
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science,
Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, CZ-128 44 Prague, Czech Republic
Czech Botanical Society (Česká botanická společnost, Societas botanica čechica) was
founded on 17 June 1912 by a group of Prague botanists and mycologists, which included
Eduard Baudyš, Augustin Bayer, Karel Domin, Karel Kavina, Josef Rohlena, František
Smotlacha and Josef Velenovský. It was the first purely botanical society both in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Slavic-speaking Europe (Hrouda 2012). After the foun-
dation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, the Society became the Czechoslovak Botanical Soci-
ety and after the splitting of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in
1993, it returned to its original name. At present, the Society has a membership of 681
consisting of both professionals and non-professionals, with the unifying principle of an
interest in field botany.
The Czech (Czechoslovak) Botanical Society has always played a pivotal role in the
life of the botanical community in the Czech Republic and former Czechoslovakia. Its
membership has included nearly all leading professional botanists in this country and
many hobby botanists. Famous personalities, such as Josef Velenovský, Karel Domin,
Josef Podpěra, Alois Zlatník, Slavomil Hejný and Josef Holub, were among those serving
as the Society’s presidents.
The Society organizes regular national botanical conferences and congresses, and
occasional international meetings, including the International Phytogeographical Excur-
sions (IPE) in 1928 and 1958. From 1957 onwards, and from 1964 annually, the Society
organizes Floristic Summer Schools in different areas of the Czech Republic, and every
third year from 1991 onwards also in Slovakia, in cooperation with the Slovak Botanical
Society. These are very popular one-week field meetings of professional and hobby bota-
nists, students and primary and secondary school teachers, with the aim to both educate
and do research on regional floras (Grulich 2012a).
Another major aim of the Society is to support scientific publications on botanical
research relevant to the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) and beyond. Soon after its foun-
dation, in 1914, the Society established the journal Preslia, named after prominent 19th-
century Czech botanists, the brothers Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791–1849) and Karel Bořivoj
Presl (1794–1852), authors of Flora čechica (1819) and other seminal publications (Kra-
hulec 2012). Already in the 1920s Preslia was well established among the most important
central-European botanical journals and has kept this position throughout its history.
Besides Preslia, the Society published several important monographs, proceedings and
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established other journals, mainly focusing on floristic research, but some of them ceased
publication for various reasons. Nowadays the Society publishes, in addition to Preslia,
two well-established journals in Czech: Zprávy České botanické společnosti (Bulletin of
the Czech Botanical Society; since 1966), which focuses on field research on flora and
vegetation in the different regions of the Czech Republic, and Bryonora (since 1988),
which deals with bryology and lichenology.
The present special issue of Preslia, published on the occasion of the centenary of the
Czech Botanical Society, summarizes the basic facts and current level of knowledge of the
flora and vegetation in the Czech Republic. The papers on the history of the botanical
research (Krahulec 2012), and on vegetation (Chytrý 2012) and flora (Kaplan 2012) in the
Czech Republic sum up the facts that can be considered as common knowledge of Czech
botanists, but have never been summarized in English or another foreign language, or even
in Czech. Thus they present a basic introduction to the study of botany in the Czech
Republic. Other papers in this special issue provide major updates on Czech flora.
Danihelka et al. (2012) present its checklist, which critically reflects the new taxonomic
and floristic knowledge accumulated since the publication of the Key to the flora of the
Czech Republic (Kubát et al. 2002), which was generally accepted as a standard of species
taxonomy and nomenclature in this country over the past decade. Grulich (2012b) updates
the Red List of the Czech flora, which replaces the previous Red List and ‘Black List’ of
disappeared taxa (Holub 2000, Holub & Procházka 2000, Procházka 2001). Pyšek et al.
(2012b) recently updated the Catalogue of alien plants of the Czech Republic, which
appeared in the previous issue of Preslia and replaced the first edition published ten years
ago (Pyšek et al. 2002). In the present issue, Pyšek et al. (2012a) summarize some infor-
mation gained from the analysis of the data contained in the new catalogue, review basic
patterns in plant invasions and provide fact sheets for neophytes currently considered as
invasive in the Czech Republic. Moreover, in the above mentioned new list of the Czech
flora (Danihelka et al. 2012) basic information from both the new Red List and the new
Catalogue of alien plants is integrated in a user-friendly format of a single table. Last but
not least, this special issue also focuses on cryptogams. Kučera et al. (2012) provide
a revised checklist and Red List of Czech bryophytes, which replaces previous versions
(Kučera & Váňa 2003, 2005). The checklist and Red List of Czech lichens was published
recently (Liška et al. 2008) and there is no need for a major update; nevertheless, Liška
(2012) summarizes the basic patterns of Czech lichen flora.
Over the last few decades, Preslia has published several synthesizing studies on this
country’s flora and vegetation, that of neighbouring countries and a wider area of central
Europe (e.g. Kropáč 2006, Sádlo et al. 2007, Lambdon et al. 2008, Klimešová & Klimeš
2008, Chytrý et al. 2009, Dúbravková et al. 2010, Kaplan 2010, Sekulová et al. 2011,
Medvecká et al. 2012, besides those mentioned above). The present issue continues in this
tradition, as well as in that of special issues, recently dealing with use of flow cytometry in
botanical research (Suda et al. 2010) and clonal growth in plants (Pyšek et al. 2011).
The X-th, jubilee Congress of the Czech Botanical Society, will be held in Prague on
3–7 September 2012. At this Congress it is planned that the invited talks will provide over-
views of the current state of botanical research in a way similar to the papers in this issue,
offer new perspectives and identify promising avenues of future research. We believe that
together with this Congress, this special issue of Preslia will not only summarize what has
been achieved so far but also stimulate new research.
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