Carl Borivoj Presl

Karel Bořivoj Presl (1794-1852) was a Bohemian botanist.

He lived all his life in Prague, and was a professor at the University of Prague. He made an expedition to Sicily in 1817, and published a "Flora bohemica" in 1820.

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 standard botanical author abbreviation C.Presl is applied to species he described.

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, 1830. [http://www.botanicus.org/title/b12043606 Botanicus]

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