Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Caryophyllales
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: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 21624
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Interests: taxonomy and nomenclature of several plant groups, mainly: Amaranthaceae juss., Asteraceae bercht. & J. presl, Caryphyllaceae juss., Chenopodiaceae vent, Cactaceae juss., Malvaceae juss., Plumbaginaceae juss.; flora, plant sociology, landscape ecology and cartography of the Mediterranean area
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Interests: nomenclature and taxonomy of vascular plants; Mediterranean endemic plants; alien and invasive Italian species; Mediterranean flora
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Taxonomy provides a basic understanding to improve the knowledge around biodiversity, which is necessary for effective decision-making about nature conservation and sustainable use. On the other hand, nomenclature, which regulates how the names should be used to communicate taxonomic hypotheses, is also important to produce correct classification systems of biodiversity, especially through the designation of types which represent the intersection between these two branches of science.
Caryophyllales Perleb is a highly diverse group of angiosperms, constituting about 6% of global flowering plant diversity and encompassing more than 30 families, about 750 genera, and 12,500 species. This order includes ecologically very diverse taxa, some of which are threatened, naturalized or invasive, or economically important. This order is highly complicated from both the nomenclatural and the taxonomic point of view, at all the ranks (from family to species), and further studies are necessary to elucidate the systematics of many groups.
This Special Issue is open to articles on both the taxonomy and/or nomenclature of any taxon belonging to Caryophyllales. Concerning taxonomy, integrative approaches (including morphometry, anatomy, karyology, and/or molecular systematics) are preferred, but also research based on classical methods is welcome. Typification of names can be also proposed in a separate paper; however, in this case, the names studied should constitute a group (at least a logical one). In other words, they should be linked to a taxonomic group, to a geographic area, or to a single author
Dr. Duilio Iamonico
Dr. Emanuele Del Guacchio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- classification
- molecular data
- morphometry
- nomenclature
- taxonomy
- typification
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