ADDITIONAL FAMILY ACRONYMS FOR VASCULAR PLANTS BASED ON APG III

2009·1.2 MB·English

by  Neil Snow

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ACRONYMS
ADDITIONAL FOR VASCULAR
PLANTS
FAMILY
ON
APG
BASED
III
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The 3 acronyms
recent publication of additional family or abbreviations families of vascular plants
-letter for
(Snow 2009) occurred before the author was aware of the additions and suggested changes that appeared
APG
in (2009). The six acronyms are necessary given earlier omissions Alford 2006) and the desire
III
(e.g.,
by certain curators to use other family names for which such acronyms are not yet available. The proposed
new new
Future authors of families of vascular plants are strongly encouraged propose 3- and
to 4-letter
&
new
acronyms
(see Kiger Reveal 2000, 2009) for each family along with the family so that future
itself,
updates of the present type are unnecessary.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
thank Kent Perkins (FLAS) and Dieter Wilken (SBBG) for their comments. As previously, the Colorado
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Native Plant Society has kindly agreed to post on-line the complete alphabetically by family and (sepa-
lists
by acronym
http://www.conps.org/pdf/Plant%20Keys/ACROS.pdf).
rately) 3-letter
(see:
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Snow, N. three-letter family for vascular plants (with
listings
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