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The Sixth Croatian Botanical Symposium, held in Zagreb, Croatia 
(August 30–September 1, 2019)

The Sixth Croatian Botanical Symposium, organized by 
the Croatian Botanical Society, was held in the Esplanade 
Hotel in Zagreb, Croatia, from 30th August to 1st September 
2019. The program included 26 oral and 40 poster 
presentations, with the total number of authors being 205. 
Alongside Croatian authors, scientists from other countries 
(Austria, Albania, Hungary, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia and 
the United Kingdom) also participated. Abstracts of all 
presentations are included in the Book of Abstracts which 
can be found on the symposium web-page. Our invited 
plenary speakers were Professor Marko Sabovljević from 
Belgrade (Serbia) and Drs. Sanja Kovačić, Ivana Rešetnik, 
Jadranka Stojanovski and Dunja Šamec from Zagreb. Oral 
presentations by the Croatian Phycology Section were or-
ganized within the 7th European Phycological Congress led 
by Professor Zrinka Ljubešić and the Croatian Botanical 
Society (Zagreb, August 25–30, 2019).

The greatest number of presentations belonged to the 
fields of taxonomic and plant systematic studies and floristic 
and vegetational studies. Contributions included floristic 
mapping, plant recolonization, notes on rare and alien flora 
and taxa new to science, phylogeography of plant taxa in the 
Amphi-Adriatic area and the Balkans, vegetation of forests, 

dry grasslands, tufa and saltern, archaeobotanical research 
and themes covered in the disciplines of didactics.

Presentation of the Flora Croatica (Vols. 1–3: Vascular 
Flora of the Republic of Croatia; Vol. 4: The Excursion Flo-
ra) by Professor Toni Nikolić, Faculty of Science, University 
of Zagreb, and published by Alfa d.d, Zagreb, was also or-
ganized. This is a long-awaited opus which, as a complete 
presentation of Croatian vascular flora, will have a valuable 
impact on education and both the popular and professional 
fields of science.

The Symposium was accompanied by several events 
aimed at addressing the current state and future perspective 
of the Flora Croatica Database. The Round Table Collections 
was also organized to highlight the problems of managing 
collections and their financing in Croatia and neighbour-
ing countries. Finally, during the Closing Remarks, the fo-
cus was on the broad topics of excellence, research, training, 
skills and mobility.

All participants of the Sixth Croatian Botanical Sympo-
sium enjoyed a one-day trip to the Mrežnica River on 1st Sep-
tember 2019.

Professor Nenad Jasprica
Croatian Botanical Society, President

Participants of the Sixth Croatian Botanical Symposium, Zagreb, Croatia (August 30–September 1, 2019).

ACTA BOT. CROAT. 78 (2), 2019 S1