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(102–103) Proposals to amend Articles 14.1 and 14.4 to extend the conservation of names to all ranks to which priority applies

scientific article

(126) Proposal to add a new Article 61.6 to permanently and retroactively eliminate epithets with the root caf[e]r‐ or caff[e]r‐ from the nomenclature of algae, fungi and plants ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

(193) Proposal to democratize aspects of the governance of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2022

(2199) Proposal to conserve the name Agave ×leopoldii W. Watson against A. leopoldii Rafarin (Agavaceae/Asparagaceae)

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2013)

(2200) Proposal to conserve the name Littaea geminiflora (Agave geminiflora) against Yucca boscii (Agavaceae/Asparagaceae)

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2013)

(2257) Proposal to conserve the name Agave hookeri Jacobi against A. hookeri K. Koch (Agavaceae/Asparagaceae)

scientific article (publication date: February 2014)

(2469–2472) Proposals to reject the names Aloe perfoliata, A. obscura, A. picta, and A. perfoliata var. saponaria (A. saponaria) (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae)

scientific article (publication date: 26 October 2016)

(2580) Proposal to conserve the name Astroloba against Poellnitzia (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

(2655) Proposal to conserve the name Aloe melanacantha against A. muricata (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae)

scientific article published in 2018

(2852) Proposal to reject the name Kalanchoe aleurodes ( Crassulaceae : Kalanchooideae ) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

(397) Proposal to introduce an Article that will limit the principle of priority by preventing the acceptance of overlooked or unrecorded names

scientific article (publication date: December 2016)

(56) Request for a binding decision on the descriptive statement associated with Kalanchoe delagoensis (Crassulaceae)

scientific article

(64–65) Requests for binding decisions on the descriptive statements associated with Euphorbia candelabrum Welw. (1855) and E. candelabrum Welw. (1856) (Euphorbiaceae)

scientific article published in 2018

(66) Request for a binding decision on whether Garretia Welw. (Meliaceae) and Garrettia H.R. Fletcher (Lamiaceae) are sufficiently alike to be confused

scientific article published in 2018

(69) Request for a binding decision on whether Ferdinanda (Asteraceae) and Ferdinandia (Bignoniaceae) are sufficiently alike to be confused

scientific article published in 2018

(70) Request for a binding decision on whether Kalanchoe rosea C.B. Clarke and K. rosei Raym.-Hamet & H. Perrier (Crassulaceae) are sufficiently alike to be confused

scientific article published in 2018

A First Record ofYucca AloifoliaL. (Agavaceae/ Asparagaceae) Naturalized in South Africa With Notes on Its Uses and Reproductive Biology

A Revision of Aulacocalyx (Rubiaceae-Gardenieae)

scientific article

A Revision of Lasiodiscus (Rhamnaceae)

scientific article

A Synopsis of Astroloba Uitewaal (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae): Species, Types, and Infrageneric Classification

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

A checklist of Polygala (Polygalaceae) in the Flora of Southern Africa region with notes on types

scientific article

A new combination in Tulista, T. kingiana (Asphodeloideae, Xanthorrhoeaceae / Alooideae, Asphodelaceae)

scientific article (publication date: March 2017)

A new combination in Tulista, T. minor (Alooideae, Asphodelaceae)

article published in 2018

A new status and combination in a Madagascan Kalanchoe , K. brevicalyx (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae)

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

A new status and combination in a Madagascan Kalanchoe, K. beauverdii var. juelii (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae)

scientific article

A review and update of the conservation status of Kalanchoe species (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) in the Flora of Southern Africa region

scientific article published in 2022

A revised generic classification for Aloe (Xanthorrhoeaceae subfam. Asphodeloideae)

scientific article

A revision of Calvoa Hook. f. (Melastomataceae)

A taxonomic revision of Calendula (Asteraceae) in Morocco, including some taxa from Algeria and Tunisia

scientific article published in 2023

Acacia, the 2011 Nomenclature Section in Melbourne, and beyond

scientific article published on August 2010

African Herbaria Support Transformation on the Continent1

scientific article published in 2011

Alien succulents naturalised and cultivated on the central west coast of Portugal

scientific article published in 2015

Aloe maculata All. (Asphodelaceae) in the Free State Province, South Africa, and resurrection of ‘var. ficksburgensis’

scientific article published in October 2012

Aloe × engelbrechtii (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), a new South African nothospecies with A. arborescens and A. hardyi as parents

scientific article

Aloe × gemmelliae (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), a new natural hybrid between A. broomii and A. grandidentata from the southwestern Free State province, South Africa

scientific article published on 6 November 2019

Aloe × schimperi Tod. (Aloe maculata All. × Aloe striata Haw.), the earliest name applicable to the common and invasive nothospecies known as Aloe × schoenlandii Baker (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae)

scientific article published in 2016

Aloe ×Inopinata Gideon F.Sm., N.R.Crouch & Oosth., (Asphodelaceae) [Aloe arborescens Mill.× Aloe chortolirioides A.Berger var. chortolirioides]: A Nothospecies from the Barberton Centre of Endemism, Eastern South Africa

article

Aloe ×eileeniae Gideon F.Sm. & Figueiredo (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), the natural hybrid between A. africana Mill. and A. ferox Mill. from the Eastern Cape province, South Africa

scientific article

Aloiampelos ciliaris nothovar. gigas (Asphodelaceae Subfam. Alooideae), a New Status for Aloe ciliaris f. gigas

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

An annotated catalogue of the exotic flora of Angola: state of the art

scientific article published in 2022

Andrew Beveridge Curror (1811–1844): collecting natural history specimens while preventing the slave trade along the west coast of Africa

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

August Wulfhorst (1861–1936) and His Overlooked Contributions on the Flora of Angola

scholarly article by Estrela Figueiredo et al published July 2013 in Candollea

Capacity Building in Taxonomy and Systematics

scientific article published on August 2009

Centaurea francoi, a replacement name for Centaurea crocata (Asteraceae), an endemic species from continental Portugal

article

Clarifying the typification of the name Kalanchoe orgyalis (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 8 April 2022

Conservation of pteridophytes in São Tomé e Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea)

Conserving Acacia Mill, with a conserved type: What happened in Melbourne?

scientific article (publication date: October 2011)

Creating an Online World Flora by 2020: a perspective from South Africa

scholarly article by Janine E. Victor et al published 28 November 2013 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Dealing with inappropriate honorifics in a structured and defensible way is possible

scientific article published in 2022

Determining the residence status of widespread plant species: studies in the flora of Angola

article

E-taxonomy: an affordable tool to fill the biodiversity knowledge gap

English and Latin as alternative languages for validating the names of organisms covered by the "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants": The final chapter?

scientific article (publication date: October 2011)

Flávio Ferreira Pinto de Resende (1907–1967): A portuguese scientist and hero‐botanist, and his forays into systematics

scientific article published in 2019

Friedrich Welwitsch and his contributions to the exploration and study of the flora of São Tomé and Príncipe, Gulf of Guinea, with typification of three names described from his collections

scientific article

Friedrich Welwitsch and his overlooked contributions to the Flora of Tropical Africa , with a discussion of the names of Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) that should be ascribed to Welwitsch alone

scientific article

From Checklists to an E-Flora for Southern Africa: Past Experiences and Future Prospects for Meeting Target 1 of the 2020 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation1

article

Furcraea selloana K.Koch is the Correct Orthography of the Species Name that Commemorates Hermann Sello in Furcraea Vent. (Asparagaceae subfam. Agavoideae / Agavaceae)

scientific article published in 2016

Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Hitting the right target: taxonomic challenges for, and of, plant invasions. ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 September 2013

Increasing nomenclatural stability by preventing the introduction of long-forgotten names that will compete with ones in use: A solution must be found, and soon

scientific article (publication date: December 2016)

Kalanchoe crouchii Gideon F.Sm. & Figueiredo (Crassulaceae), a New Species from the Dolomites of the Wolkberg Centre of Endemism, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Kalanchoe krigeae (K. subg. Kalanchoe; Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae), a new, small-growing species from northeastern South Africa split off from K. rotundifolia

scientific article published in 2023

Kalanchoe porphyrocalyx var. sambiranensis , a new variety in a Madagascan Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae)

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Kalanchoe winteri Gideon F.Sm., N.R.Crouch & Mich.Walters (Crassulaceae), a new species from the Wolkberg Centre of Endemism, South Africa

scientific article published in November 2016

Kalanchoe × gildenhuysii (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae), a new nothospecies derived from K. millotii and K. tomentosa

scientific article published on 7 May 2020

Latin diagnoses: An unnecessary impediment — A response to Jørgensen

scientific article (publication date: October 2010)

Latin diagnosis: Time to let go

scientific article (publication date: April 2010)

Lectotypification of the name Kalanchoe wildii (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2022

Naturalized alien flora of the world

article

Nomenclature and typification of Staudtia pterocarpa (Myristicaceae)

scientific article

Nomenclature of Brochoneura and Cephalosphaera (Myristicaceae), with a replacement name, Neobrochoneura , and new combinations in this genus for Madagascan species previously included in Brochoneura

scientific article

Notes on <i>Agave weberi</i> J.F.Cels ex J.Poiss. (Agavaceae), a large-growing species with invasive tendencies in southern Africa

scientific article published in 2015

Notes on Aloe ×nobilis Haw. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae)

scientific article published in 2015

Notes on Brachystephanus (Acanthaceae)

scientific article

Nothospecies status for Kalanchoe auriculata , as K. × auriculata (Crassulaceae)

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

One Hundred and Ninety Years On: Felix De Avelar Brotero and the End of the Earliest Phase of Portuguese Botany

article

Plant poaching in southern Africa is aided by taxonomy: Is a return to Caput bonae spei inevitable?

scientific article published in 2023

Plants of Angola ⬇️

botanical publication, published in 2008

Pollen morphology ofBrachystephanus(Acanthaceae-Justicieae)

scientific article published in 1996

Polygala retiefiana (Polygalaceae), a new species described from South Africa

article

Rediscovery of Adenia natalensis W.J.De Wilde (Passifloraceae) After 150 Years

article published in 2016

Reinstatement of Aloe davyana (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), a winter-flowering species endemic to central-northeastern South Africa

scientific article

Reinstatement of Aloe davyana var. subolifera (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae), a distinctive variety of an endemic South African aloe

scientific article

Reinstatement of Kalanchoe montana Compton (Crassulaceae), a Distinctive Species from the Barberton Center of Endemism, Eastern Southern Africa

article

Responsible species description: A change of attitude is needed to facilitate and improve access to biological material

scientific article published on December 2011

State of our knowledge of online resources of the types of names of Agave L. (Agavaceae / Asparagaceae) with a list of names attributed to William Trelease, with notes on types, online resources and etymology

scientific article

Summer-flowering species of maculate Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) in the Aloe zebrina-complex from South Africa: reinstatement of four names, and description of A. braamvanwykii Gideon F.Sm. & Figueiredo

scientific article published in October 2012

Taxonomists have an opportunity to rid botanical nomenclature of inappropriate honorifics in a structured and defensible way ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 October 2022

Taxonomy and conservation of the genus Psychotria (Rubiaceae) in S.Tomé e Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea)

scientific article published in April 2005

The Acacia controversy resulting from minority rule at the Vienna Nomenclature Section: Much more than arcane arguments and complex technicalities

scientific article (publication date: June 2011)

The Aloe Names Book

book by Olwen M. Grace

The Flora of Angola: First Record of Diversity and Endemism

scientific article published on February 2009

The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database

scientific article published in 2018

The Global Plants Initiative: Where it all Started

scientific article (publication date: 30 June 2014)

The Leguminosae of Angola: Diversity and Endemism

scholarly article by Miguel Soares et al published 2007 in Systematics and geography of plants

The Rubiaceae of Angola

scientific article published in April 2008

The Rubiaceae of Cabinda (Angola)

scientific article published in August 2007

The Rubiaceae of São Tomé e Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea): taxonomy and conservation

scientific article published in September 2005

The Succulent Flora of Angola

scholarly article published December 2009

The botanical exploration of Angola by Germans during the 19th and 20th centuries, with biographical sketches and notes on collections and herbaria ⬇️

article published in November 2020

The colonial legacy in African plant taxonomy

article

The contributions to and controversies introduced into research on the Aphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae and Crassulaceae by Flávio Resende (1907–1967) in the mid-20th century

scientific article

The correct names for species of Aloe sect. Chortolirion (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae)

scientific article (publication date: 20 December 2013)

The correct publication dates of Felix de Avelar Brotero's Phytographia Lusitaniae selectior, with notes on his personal library

scientific article published in 2018

The curious case of the occurrence of Lampranthus glaucus (L.) N.E.Br. (Aizoaceae / Mesembryanthemaceae) in Europe

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

The identity of John Rattray, diatomist and collector on the Buccaneer expedition (1885–1886) to West Africa

scientific article published in 2019

The infrageneric classification and nomenclature ofKalanchoeAdans. (Crassulaceae), with special reference to the southern African species

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The nomenclature and taxonomy of Kalanchoe nyikae (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae), a little-known species from East Africa

scientific article

The nomenclature of two names proposed for Portuguese taxa of Calendula (Asteraceae) by Lange in 1883

scientific article

The publication dates of Felix de Avelar Brotero's <i>Phytographia Lusitaniae selectior</i> revisited, with notes on nomenclatural novelties published by Brotero in this work

scientific article published in 2022

The type status of collections made by Adolfo Moller and Francisco Quintas in the floras of São Tomé and Príncipe

scientific article published on 2 December 2019

The vascular plant collections of Francisco Newton (1864–1909) in Angola

scientific article

Three New Species of Commelina (Commelinaceae) from South-Central Africa

Three unpublished letters by Felix de Avelar Brotero reveal new information on his herbarium and types

scientific article published in 2018

Twentieth century vascular plant taxonomy in Portugal

scientific article published in August 2018

Type specimens online: What is available, what is not, and how to proceed; Reflections based on an analysis of the images of type specimens of southern African Polygala (Polygalaceae) accessible on the worldwide web

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2013)

Types to the rescue as technology taxes taxonomists, or The New Disappearance

scientific article (publication date: 28 October 2015)

Typification of Euphorbia candelabrum (Euphorbiaceae) and associated names

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Typification of Names Based on the Angolan Collections of Friedrich Welwitsch

scientific article published on May 2009

Typification of the name Hoodia currorii (Apocynaceae)

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Typification of the name Kalanchoe scapigera (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae)

scientific article published on 9 March 2020

Typification of two Linnaean names in Polygala (Polygalaceae): P. bracteolata and P. myrtifolia

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2013)

Who amends the "International Code of Botanical Nomenclature?" A response to Applequist & al. (2010)

scientific article (publication date: February 2011)

Who amends the International code of botanical nomenclature?

scientific article (publication date: June 2010)

Yet two more firsts for Mary E. Barber (1818–1899), and a new synonym for the largest aloe, Aloidendron barberae (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae)

scientific article

× Bacurio , a new nothogenus for the hybrid × B. delphinatifolius (Baculellum articulatum × Curio rowleyanus), with notes on the nomenclature of Kleinia × peregrina , Senecio peregrinus , S . × peregrinus , and Curio × peregrinus (Asteraceae: Aste...

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× Senecurio , a new nothogenus for the hybrid × S. kleiniiformis (Asteraceae subfam. Asteroideae tr. Senecioneae)

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“ Rhodes ‐” must fall: Some of the consequences of colonialism for botany and plant nomenclature ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

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