Counting counts: Revised estimates of numbers of accepted species of flowering plants, seed plants, vascular plants and land plants with a review of other recent estimates

Phytotaxa

Volumn 272, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 82-88

  Lughadha, Eimear Nic ^a   Govaerts, Rafaël ^a   Belyaeva, Irina ^a   Black, Nicholas ^a   Lindon, Heather ^a   Allkin, Robert ^a   Magill, Robert E ^b   Nicolson, Nicky ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Described species estimates; Global plant diversity; Known species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984846945     PISSN: 11793155     EISSN: 11793163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.272.1.5     Document Type: Article

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