"Biodiversity has become one of the key notions of the contemporary world, a measure of sustainable development, and a paradigm of modern nature protection and environmental management. (...) The book, that you are holding in your hands, is a part of the series entitled Biodiversity of Poland, assembling and presenting, for the first time in our history, the country's species richness of plants, as well as fungi and other organisms traditionally included within the plant kingdom. It is also a sort of biodiversity 'opening balance' at the threshold of the third millenium."