Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Euro + Mediterranean Vascular Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Systematics, Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Classification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 1053
Special Issue Editors
Interests: systematics; taxonomy and nomenclature of vascular plants; Mediterranean flora; herbarium
Interests: vascular plants; systematics; evolution; biodiversity; biogeography; threatened species
Interests: taxonomy and systematics of flowering plants; molecular phylogenetic; plant nomenclature; phytogeography; Asparagales; Brassicales; Caryophyllales
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Euro-Mediterranean area (including Europe, the Mediterranean and the Caucasus) is one of the Earth’s plant diversity hotspots, being home to more than 45,000 species and subspecies of vascular plants. Despite the great attention paid to plant biodiversity in this area, several cryptic species and/or critical groups need to be better investigated from nomenclatural and taxonomic perspectives, and many plant species are yet undescribed. More than 75% of the planet’s undescribed plant species are already threatened with extinction.
Plant taxonomy is the science of classifying and naming plants, and it is of crucial importance for planning the appropriate conservation strategies. Nomenclature plays a central role in the description of the diversity of life on our planet, and the typification process is essential for any taxonomic study.
This Special Issue requests the submission of articles on the taxonomy and/or nomenclature of vascular plants belonging to critical taxonomic groups in the Euro-Mediterranean area. Concerning taxonomy, studies that employ integrated approaches (including morphology, karyology and/or molecular systematics) are preferred. The typification of names can also be proposed in a separate paper.
Dr. Fabrizio Bartolucci
Dr. Llorenç Sáez
Prof. Dr. Manuel Crespo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cytotaxonomy
- herbarium data
- integrative taxonomy
- molecular data
- morphometry
- plant nomenclature
- typification
- vascular flora
