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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of our journal

29-09-2025

On 25 September 2025 we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the journal Acta Botanica Croatica. After the ceremony, we participated in a Panel Discussion with guests, editors-in-chief of botanical journals from Italy (Prof. Gianmaria Bonari), Hungary (Dr. Zoltan Botta-Dukat), Serbia (Prof. Marko Sabovljević) and Slovenia (Prof. Urban Šilc). Thank you for being part of our celebration.

Vol. 84 No. 2 (2025)

On the cover:

Flavonoid fluorescence in stellate trichomes of Degenia velebitica, a Croatian endemic species, is reported by Stamenković and Tkalec (pp. 247–255).

Published: 26 September 2025

Foreword by the Editors-in-Chief

115 Mirta Tkalec, Nenad Jasprica

Past, present and future of an alien fungus Clathrus archeri in Croatia

193-201 Sven Jelaska, Damjana Levačić

Leaf morphological variability of Pyrus spinosa and Crataegus monogyna and their potential hybridization

202-210 Antonio Vidaković, Zlatko Šatović, Zlatko Liber, Marko Jurica, Igor Poljak

Distribution, ecology and variability of Galanthus reginae-olgae Orph. along the northern limit of its Balkan distribution (Croatia)

211-218 Vedran Šegota, Filip Jovanović , Bariša Ilić, Marko Doboš, Marija Bučar, Anja Rimac

Retrodunal dry grassland vegetation in the hinterland of Velika Plaža (Montenegro)

219-236 Danijela Stesevic, Milica Stanišić-Vujačić, Đorđije Milanović, Urban Šilc

Micropropagation and optimisation of in vitro production of the rare and threatened moss Entosthodon pulchellus (Funariaceae)

237-246 Marija V. Ćosić, Djordje P. Božović, Michael S. Ignatov, Elena A. Ignatova, Milorad M. Vujičić, Aneta D. Sabovljević, Marko S. Sabovljević

Flavonoid composition and localization in trichomes and leaves of Degenia velebitica (Brassicaceae)

247-255 Vanja Stamenković, Mirta Tkalec

Construction of the Arabidopsis isogenic lines containing dually localized protein TROL only in the inner chloroplast envelope membrane

256-265 Lea Vojta, Hrvoje Fulgosi, Ana Tomašić Paić, Ena Dumančić

Physiological and molecular response of Brassica rapa to moderate and extreme heat

266-275 Mirta Tokić, Mirta Tkalec, Sandra Vitko, Branka Salopek-Sondi, Jutta Ludwig-Müller, Nataša Bauer

Stellaria ruderalis (Caryophyllaceae) in the Caucasus, new records and species habitat preferences

276-279 Pavel Novák, Vojtěch Taraška, Veronika Kalníková, Petr Hubatka, Jaroslav Rohel, George Fayvush

Stachys ocymastrum (Lamiaceae) – a new plant species in Croatia

280-283 Dragica Purger, Jenő J. Purger, Marija Pandža, Nenad Jasprica
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