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ADDITIONAL FAMILY ACRONYMS FOR VASCULAR PLANTS BASED ON APG III Author(s): Neil Snow Source: Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Vol. 3, No. 2 (25 NOVEMBER 2009), p. 993 Published by: The Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41971894 . Accessed: 16/06/2014 15:23 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 62.122.76.48 on Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:23:08 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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ADDITIONAL FAMILY ACRONYMS FOR VASCULAR PLANTS BASED ON APG IIIAuthor(s): Neil SnowSource: Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Vol. 3, No. 2 (25 NOVEMBER2009), p. 993Published by: The Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Inc.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41971894 .
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ADDITIONAL FAMILY ACRONYMS FOR VASCULAR PLANTS
BASED ON APG III
Neil Snow Herbarium Pacificum
Bishop Museum 1525 Bern ice Street,
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817, U.S.A. [email protected]
ABSTRACT Six additional 3-letter family acronyms are proposed for vascular plants.
RESUMEN Se proponen acrónimos de tres letras para seis familias de plantas vasculares.
The recent publication of additional 3-letter family acronyms or abbreviations for families of vascular plants (Snow 2009) occurred before the author was aware of the additions and suggested changes that appeared in APG III (2009). The six acronyms are necessary given earlier omissions (e.g., Alford 2006) and the desire by certain curators to use other family names for which such acronyms are not yet available. The proposed acronyms are:
Anacampserotaceae (ACM) Boweniaceae (BOW) Gerrardinaceae (GRR) Maundiaceae (MAU) Montiaceae (MON) Veron icaceae (VER)
Future authors of new families of vascular plants are strongly encouraged to propose new 3- and 4-letter acronyms (see Kiger & Reveal 2000, 2009) for each new family along with the family itself, so that future updates of the present type are unnecessary.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 thank Kent Perkins (FLAS) and Dieter Wilken (SBBG) for their comments. As previously, the Colorado Native Plant Society has kindly agreed to post on-line the complete lists alphabetically by family and (sepa- rately) by 3-letter acronym (see: http://www.conps.org/pdf/Plant%20Keys/ACROS.pdf).
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Alford, M.H. 2006. Gerrardinaceae: a new family of African flowering plants unresolved among Brassicales, Huerteales, Malvales, and Sapindales. Taxon 55:959-964.
APG (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group). 2009. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Bot. J. Linnean Soc. 1 61 :1 05-1 21 .
Kiger, R.W. and J.L. Reveal. 2000. A comprehensive scheme for standardized abbreviation of usable plant-family names and type-based suprafamilial names. Huntia 1 1:55-84.
Kiger, R.W. and J.L. Reveal. 2009. A comprehensive scheme for standardized abbreviation of usable plant-family names and type-based suprafamilial names, http://www.plantsystematics.org/reveal/pbio/fam/famabbr. html [Accessed 4 November 2009].
Snow, N. 2009 Twenty-eight new three-letter family acronyms for vascular plants (with comprehensive listings on-line,). J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3:273-277.
J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3(2): 993. 2009
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