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For the Red List taxa, we follow Brummitt (2001) as a standard world geographic
scheme for recording plant distributions, the abbreviations follow the Taxonomic
Databases Working Group (TDWG) (see Appendix 3). Those used here are:
BAH-OO
LEE-AB
LEE-AG
LEE-BV
LEE-GU
LEE-MO
LEE-NL
LEE-SK
LEE-SM
LEE-VI
PUE-OO
TCI-OO
WIN-LU
WIN-MA
WIN-SV
WIN-GR
Bahamas;
Antigua-Barbuda;
Anguilla;
British Virgin Islands;
Guadeloupe (incl. La Désirade, Marie-Galante);
Montserrat;
Netherlands Leeward Islands (Saba, St. Eustatius);
St. Kitts-Nevis;
St. Martin-St. Barthélémy;
US Virgin Islands;
Puerto Rico;
Turks & Caicos;
St. Lucia;
Martinique;
St. Vincent;
Grenada (and the Grenadines).
Nomenclatural terms:
Within the Red List details resides a series of well-defined nomenclatural terms that
deserve some explanation here. These are usually latinised statements relating to the
process of naming a species. Of course plant species can have been known under one
or more names during the unravelling of our botanical knowledge over time. There
are also many abbreviations of the place of publication, as well as standard forms for
authors of plant names, which follow Brumitt & Powell (1992). e.g. L., is the
standard form for Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist whose seminal work, Species
Plantarum (1753) was the founding point of modern binomial nomenclature.
emend.
et auctt.
ex
holotype
in prep.
ined.
isotype
nec
nomen nudum, or nom. nud.
non Kiaersk.
pro parte
sensu Britton
s.n.
sphalmate sub.
subsp. / var.
syntype
corrected.
and other authors.
from, out of.
the single specimen stated to be that which a
name is based on.
work in preparation.
(name) not yet published.
a duplicate colleceted under the same number as
the holotype
neither
a name that has been published without a
validating description, hence a ‘naked name’.
not as circumscribed by Kiaerskou.
in part, or partly
in the sense of Britton.
sino numero = collection with no number
specified.
by mistake under.
subspecies / variety.
one of several specimens mentioned at the time
of publication of a name, none of which is
designated as being the holotype.
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