Integrative Taxonomy of Mediterranean Flora: New Insights into Taxonomic Complexity
A special issue of Taxonomy (ISSN 2673-6500).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 166
Special Issue Editor
Interests: species complexes; cryptic diversity; hybrid and polyploid lineages; floristic evolution in biodiversity hotspots; biodiversity conservation; sustainable management of natural heritage
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Dear Colleagues,
The Mediterranean Basin is a major global hotspot of plant diversity, notable for high endemism and persistent taxonomic complexity. Its flora reflects a long history of climatic oscillations, geological heterogeneity, and human influence, resulting in natural hybridization, polyploidy, cryptic diversity, and rapid lineage diversification. These processes continue to complicate species delimitation, nomenclature, and classification across many Mediterranean plant groups. This Special Issue focuses on integrative taxonomic studies of Mediterranean flora, with particular emphasis on taxonomic revisions, species complexes, nothotaxa, and evolutionary lineages that challenge traditional classifications. Contributions combining morphology with molecular phylogenetics or phylogenomics, cytogenetics, biogeography, or ecological data are especially encouraged. Studies clarifying nomenclatural issues, typification, or providing robust taxonomic frameworks with conservation relevance are also welcome. By promoting rigorous and integrative taxonomy, this Special Issue aims to strengthen the foundations for biodiversity assessment, conservation planning, and evolutionary research in one of the world’s most complex floristic regions.
Dr. Isabel Marques
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mediterranean flora
- species complexes
- taxonomic revision
- species delimitation
- hybrid taxa
- polyploid lineages
- cryptic species
- nomenclature
- typification
- conservation relevance
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