Introduction - Species Plantarum Programme

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iv STEERING COMMITTEE OF SPECIES PLANTARUM PROJECT W.R. Anderson, United States of America A. Anton, Argentina W. Berendsohn, Germany D.E. Boufford, United States of America L. Boulos, Egypt R.K. Brummitt, United Kingdom J.H. Burnett, United Kingdom S. Castroviejo, Spain T.F. Daniel, United States of America P. Dávila, Mexico E. Forero, Colombia I. Friis, Denmark A.S. George, Australia W. Greuter, Germany P.K. Hajra, India D.J. Hong, China K. Iwatsuki, Japan B. Jonsell, Sweden J. Kirschner, Czech Republic H.P. Linder, South Africa P.-A. Loizeau, Switzerland J.L. Luteyn, United States of America M.C.H. Mamede, Brazil J. McNeill, Canada P. Morat, France N.R. Morin, United States of America H. Ohashi, Japan A.E. Orchard, Australia R.J. Pankhurst, United Kingdom M. Sanjappa, India J.H. Seyani, Malawi G.F. Smith, South Africa W.L. Wagner, United States of America K. Wilson, Australia
INTRODUCTION The Species Plantarum Project is an initiative by a world-wide consortium of taxonomists to write and publish a Flora of the vascular plants of the world. The Project operates under the auspices of the International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI), a Commission of IUBS. Species Plantarum aims to provide in concise format, and with standardised data fields, basic taxonomic information on the vascular plants of the world, including accepted names and synonyms with bibliographic data, types of names, keys and descriptions from family to varietal levels, geographical distributions, ecological information and other related matters, and to publish it in both hard copy and electronic form. The format of the Species Plantarum is based on that of Flora of Australia, with some departures made necessary by the different scale of the project. Initially at least, the series is being edited and published for the Species Plantarum Project and IOPI by the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), producers of Flora of Australia. Treatments are contributed on a voluntary basis. Each part of Species Plantarum is intended to provide a complete account of a family, subfamily, large genus or other related taxonomic group. While treatments of small families may be shorter, it is intended that contributions will, in general, cover at least 50 to 100 species. The taxonomy adopted is that of the author, although the family delimitations recommended are initially those of R.K.Brummitt, Vascular Plant Families and Genera (1992). The order of taxa within families, genera and species in the Species Plantarum is intended to reflect natural relationships, so far as this is possible in a linear sequence. Maps are provided for each species, or in those cases where infraspecific taxa are recognised, for each of the terminal taxa. Distribution maps are based on those in S.Hollis & R.K.Brummitt, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (1992), and the 'countries' adopted are those of Level 3 and 4 of that work. Description of distribution follows the same work, with a two-digit code for regions and a three-letter code for the 'country'. Upper case letters for the 'country' indicate native distribution; lower case letters indicate that the taxon is only present in that 'country' as an introduced and naturalised plant. If a taxon is extinct in a 'country', this is indicated by a dagger. Distribution of species as cultivated plants is not included. Misapplied and invalid names are, in general, omitted. Journal titles are abbreviated according to G.H.M.Lawrence et al., Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum (1968) and its Supplementum (1991). Book titles are abbreviated according to F.A.Stafleu & R.S.Cowan, Taxonomic Literature (2nd edn) Vols 1–7, and Supplements (1976–), except that all major words are capitalised. Authors of plant names are abbreviated according to R.K.Brummitt & C.E.Powell, Authors of Plant Names (1992). In a long-term project such as this, various conventions will probably change with time. For this reason, information about the project and instructions for authors will also be available on the World Wide Web, initially through the ABRS site (currently http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/flora/spplant/spplant) with links from the IOPI site (currently http://life.csu.edu.au/iopi/iopihome) and others. 1
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GLOSSARY scale: a reduced or rudime
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