Editorial Policy
Papers are accepted on the basis of original ideas and datasets. Preliminary research and floristic papers (list of species, floristic records) will not be accepted. Floristic papers can be accepted if they are accompanied by taxonomy (e.g., new taxa description, typification) or ecology (robust dataset with sophisticated statistics). Manuscripts submitted must be original and not have been accepted for publication or be under consideration elsewhere. It is the responsibility of authors to ensure that nothing in a submitted manuscript would be in breach of any copyright agreement. It is the responsibility of authors to keep all rules of scientific work in biology – for instance having all permissions for their research (sampling in protected areas, sampling on protected animals in case of epizoon, adherence to the Nagoya Protocol of access to genetic resources, plagiarism [including self plagiarism], etc.). Authors must specify any permissions as appropriate in the Methods, Acknowledgement, or Cover Letter. On acceptance of a manuscript, copyright is transferred to the journal.
Authors must deposit any molecular sequences data in GenBankGenBank and provide their access numbers (as approaite in the manuscript). Alignments and additional data may be required by the editors and published as Supplementary Data. Descriptions of new taxa must follow the latest version of the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants. Holotypes must be deposited with specific accession number in herbarium registered in a public database (see for more details in Instructions for Authors).