Section policy

Systematics of Algae and Fungi

Darwiniana, nueva serie publishes systematic reviews in different taxonomic categories as long as they meet the requirement of being a monophyletic group or covering an important geographic area for which no keys or descriptions of the taxa have been published. For mycological, phycological and related group novelties (new species, new citations or new combinations) the complement of molecular information is required and they must be based on more than one collection deposited in recognized herbaria. Darwiniana, nueva serie does not currently consider it pertinent to publish notes that only include a reduced number of floristic or nomenclatural novelties.

 

Systematics of Vascular Plants and Bryophytes

Darwiniana, nueva serie publishes systematic reviews in different taxonomic categories as long as they meet the requirement of being a monophyletic group or covering an important geographic area for which no keys or descriptions of plants have been published. Taxonomic reviews should include keys, full descriptions, illustrations, distribution maps, nomenclatural treatments with resolved typifications, and exicata from various herbaria. Taxonomic novelties should preferably be based on karyological or molecular data and the phylogenetic analysis that supports them; if applicable, it should include a discussion or commentary of morphological synapomorphies. They must be based on more than one collection deposited in recognized herbaria. They must include diagnosis, key, illustrations and maps.

 

Floristic and nomenclatural notes

Darwiniana, nueva serie publishes new citations for a country or a set of several nomenclatural novelties referring to a taxonomic group. Darwiniana, nueva serie does not consider pertinent, at present, the publication of notes that only include a reduced number of floristic or nomenclatural novelties. New citations are published including description of the species, nomenclatural information (information on the type, nomenclatural news if necessary, synonyms or reference to the synonymous list), plate or iconography, key to the genus or related group, distribution and habitat data, observations, material examined, distribution map and conservation status (based on the latest version available from IUCN). In the case of exotic species, one or more populations that persist over time without human intervention must be documented. Darwiniana, nueva serie does not consider pertinent, at present, the publication of articles on the extension of the distribution area of ​​plant taxa within a country, unless they present peculiar distribution patterns. Nomenclatural novelties should preferably have an impact on other areas of knowledge beyond the interest group (economically interesting groups, names of authorities of historical interest, correction of errors repeated over time or repeated in different groups), otherwise they should be included in comprehensive taxonomic treatments of the group. Also of interest to the journal are novelties based on molecular data or when they are based on the discovery of a lost type material or on analysis of complex type materials and where a deep historical study was required. These novelties must include the phylogenetic analysis and/or the images of the most relevant historical documents studied. They must have all types correctly designated. New combinations only with the corresponding analysis that supports them (phylogeny or chromosomal studies) in addition to the classical morphological studies and a detailed analysis of the protologues and type material.

 

Ecology and Phytogeography

Darwiniana, nueva serie publishes works that present a clear objective, guided by a working hypothesis. Due to the existence of databases and catalogs with botanical information that are easily accessible via the Internet, papers whose objective is to publish floristic lists of vascular plants are not accepted. Floristic lists for a given area are only published as part of a larger phytogeographical, biogeographical or ecological work.

 

Structure and development – ​​Palynology – Reproductive Biology

Darwiniana, nueva serie publishes works that present a working hypothesis that allows a discussion in a systematic, phylogenetic, paleobotanical, ecological or taxonomic context. At present, Darwiniana, nueva serie does not accept exclusively descriptive works.

 

Genetics

Darwiniana, nueva serie publishes papers dealing with the evolution of the karyotype number, or the chromosome number, or population genetics. Particularly interesting are works where genetic data allow taxonomic problems to be solved or represent novel data for taxa of genus or higher rank. Papers should always include photographs of phases of meiosis or mitosis from which conclusions are drawn. At present, Darwiniana, nueva serie does not accept works exclusively with chromosome counts for species.

 

Archaeobotany and Ethnobotany

Darwiniana, nueva serie publishes archaeobotanical works whose objectives, hypotheses and results reflect an interdisciplinary approach from botany and archaeology. Likewise, the publications of this Section must contain botanical, morphological and/or anatomical descriptions of the archaeobotanical material in question, clearly illustrated with references to facilitate reading by readers from different disciplines. The ethnobotany works must have a theoretical-methodological framework that ascribes to the study of knowledge and practices on plant species that have duly socio-culturally characterized human groups in articulation with their precise cultural environment where they acquire their significance. Obtaining information in the field must be carried out on several occasions and for a medium to long term, in order to cover not only the phenological variability of the plants considered but also to carry out a considerable number of surveys with collaborators. of the human group in question that provide the information. Both archaeobotany and ethnobotany works must include identifications (determinations) with a valid scientific name of the species cited and have collections of reference material deposited in duly registered herbaria.