The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854.
[1] At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its disposal, the education and the work of its members" (Article 2 of the founding statutes).
The creation of the society was a result of a meeting on 12 March 1854 of the following sixteen botanists, who became founding members: Three of these participants, L. Graves, A. Passy and W. de Schoenefeld, formed a committee and established society rules inspired by the Société géologique de France in whose creation Louis Graves had taken part.
Currently SBF has two publications: Acta Botanica (quarterly), including a significant number of subscriptions from institutions, and Journal de Botanique, issued as need arises and where in particular reports are published on botanical excursions (the most recent having been held in Cyprus in the Forez and Morocco).
In addition to a historical survey of the Society's role in presenting botany in France, its future and its educational mission were also reasserted.