Format: ORAL

R.W. Scotland

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Tropical plants are in the most urgent need of taxonomic revision as the majority of tropical genera have never been monographed, that is they have not been the subject of detailed study across their entire geographical range. To complete the inventory of tropical flowering plants phylogenetics and monophyly are important but need to be integrated with nomenclature, description, morphology, geography, literature, interpretation of specimens, plant collectors and protologues. In the absence of this integration the inventory of tropical plants remains partial and problematic to tackle the biodiversity crisis.