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Chasmanthium latifolium by T.R. Soderstrom In 1950, the International Botanical Congress founded the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), which initiated the journal Taxon. All proposals for conservation or rejection of scientific names are now published in Taxon. The proposal number series was started in 1954 and continues today. We are providing an index to the names proposed for conservation or rejection since the first proposals in 1892. The record for each name provides the citation for the relevant publications and indicates the final disposition of the proposal. For a full explanation of this search query, see our help file. [Dan Nicolson, March 2000; database last updated 31 March 2008 (4,794 entries)].

Please choose from the following selections and enter your search criteria for a complete history of the proposed name(s):

  • Enter any part of the scientific name (family, genus or species epithet) or the number of the proposal:
  • Or select the plant group: the taxonomic rank:
    and the action proposed on the name(s): .
  • Enter the Taxon journal number in which the name(s) appeared (if known): .
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