Abstract
Summary The FLORA is the oldest scientific journal of botany in the world continously carrying the same name. Its foundation by the Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaft in 1818, its edition by the same society until 1888, its emancipation and consolidation under important and impressive editors like K. v. G oebel , O. R enner and K. M othes is discussed. The FLORA has devoted itself to the complete range of botany, however with various emphasis on special branches at different times of its history. Beyond comparison to other journals the FLORA reflects the history of botany in the postlinnean period. The era as most important periodical of systematic botany was followed by periods when morphology and developmental botany, then plant physiology and genetics, and finally biochemical physiology had been emphasized. Besides the most actual fields the remaining ones however never missed place for performance. The consideration of various diverging branches of botany in connection with increasing sizes of the volumes as well as the finally not realizable separation into two sections required specialisation and concentration on selected topics in order to remain competitive nowadays. At present the FLORA promotes linkage of the different traditional fields of botany in connection with functional aspects including ecophysiology.
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