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The “Źródła Rzeki Łyny im. prof. R. Kobendzy” nature reserve was established in 1959 and occupies the area of 120.54 ha. The paper describes fl ora and plant communities of this reserve. In total 409 vascular plant taxa from 70 families and 235 genera were inventoried, including 24 species which are under legal protection, as well as rare plants and those which are threatened in this region. Nine plant communities were identifi ed within the boundaries of the reserve of which three were forest autogenic or autogenic-like communities (Ribeso nigri-Alnetum, Stellario nemorum-Alnetum glutinosae, Tilio cordatae- -Carpinetum betuli), three were forest anthropogenic communities with Pinus sylvestris, Betula pendula, Larix decidua and Larix ×eurolepis and Picea abies on lime-oak-hornbeam forest sites, as well as three non-forest communities (Salicetum pentandro-cinereae, Phragmitetum australis and a meadow community from the Molinio-Arrhenatheretea class). The highest natural value was determined in very well developed phytocoenoses of Stellario nemorum-Alnetum glutinosae (the rarest in the reserve), in Ribeso nigri-Alnetum and Tilio cordatae-Carpinetum betuli, as well as meadow communities from the Molinio-Arrhenatheretea class. They provide sanctuary for many species of rare and threatened plants.