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What is a Flora? Peter Hovenkamp

What is a Flora? Peter Hovenkamp. What is not a Flora?. Labwork /ecology paper Species selection on non-taxonomic criteria No identification tool Character selection other than diagnostic value One specimen?. What is not a Flora?. Taxonomic monograph All species

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What is a Flora? Peter Hovenkamp

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  1. What is a Flora?Peter Hovenkamp

  2. What is not a Flora? • Labwork/ecology paper • Species selection on non-taxonomic criteria • No identification tool • Character selection other than diagnostic value • One specimen?

  3. What is not a Flora? • Taxonomicmonograph • All species • All synonyms/Types • No geographiclimitation • All characters • Full ecology • All specimens

  4. What is not a Flora? • Checklist • All species • Synonyms/Types • Strong geographiclimitation • No characters • Ecology • All specimens

  5. What is not a Flora? • Popular/field guide • Species selectionbytaxonomy • Strong geographiclimitation • Pictorialcharacters • Ecology

  6. What it takes to be a Flora • Taxonomic scope higherthan Order level • Species selectionbygeography • Synonymslisted • Species identification tool provided (key, notes) • Characterslisted (as opposedtodepicted) • Distribution listed • Ecologylisted

  7. What is allowed in a Flora • Taxonomic scope • Green plants • Algae • Fungi… • Species selection • Geography • Ecology

  8. What is allowed in a Flora • Synonyms • limitedbyrelevance • listedin full • Types • Detailedlist • No details

  9. What is allowed in a Flora • Identification tool • Separate key • No separate key • Characters • Implicit in keys • Explicitdescriptions • Selectedbydiagnosticrelevance

  10. What is allowed in a Flora • Additional data in variousdegree of detail

  11. What a Flora does • Standardizesusage • Statuspresencenativeintroduced • NamesCommonScientific • Species concepts • Genus, Family classification • Facilitates • Identification • Communication • Data retrieval

  12. What a Flora needs to beeffective • Awareness • Availability • Accessibility • Authority • Source: KNNV

  13. How a Flora canbeeffectivelypromoted

  14. Whatittakes to write a Flora • Basic data • Type specimen metadata • Basionym • Collection metadata • Collector + number • Collection date • Collection locality • Ecology • … • Collection metadata • Collector + number • Collection date • Collection locality • Ecology • …

  15. What we do when we write a Flora • Enriched data Observations Character/state Character/state Character/state Character/state … • Type specimen metadata • Basionym Literature Protologue conspecificity • Collection metadata • Collector + number • Collection date • Collection locality • Ecology • … • Collection metadata • Collector + number • Collection date • Collection locality • Ecology • … Observations Character/state Character/state Character/state Character/state …

  16. Whatitmeans to write a Flora aggregation Nomenclature Description Distribution Ecology Notes literature literature Species concept Metadata Metadata Observations aggregation Observations Observations Observations aggregation Metadata Metadata Metadata Metadata

  17. How Flora’s differ:Editorial decisions during aggregation

  18. VISION!

  19. What I do when I write a Flora Observations Observations Observations Observations

  20. What I want to do when I write a Flora Species concept Observations Observations Observations Observations

  21. What I really want aggregation Nomenclature literature literature Species concept Metadata Metadata Description Observations aggregation Observations Observations Observations aggregation Metadata Distribution Ecology Notes Metadata Metadata Metadata

  22. Howthismaybeachieved? is conspecificwith • (thanks to Rod Page) me

  23. is conspecificwith Howthismaybeachieved? My colleague is conspecificwith • (thanks to Rod Page) Species concept is conspecificwith me

  24. Howthismaybeachieved? Species concept

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