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Phytotaxa is a hybrid journal and has published many open access papers:
We encourage the open access of papers as they are more widely read and cited. Our open access option has one of the lowest article processing fees.
Announcements
Acceptance rate 36% during the third quarter of 2025 2025-10-02
During the third quarter of 2025, Phytotaxa received 400 manuscripts, accepted 256 manuscripts, declined 147 manuscripts and published 245 manuscripts; days to first decision is 4, to accept is 53 and to reject is 20; rejection rate is 64% (32% desk reject and 32% after review reject).
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Passiflora albopurpurea, a new species of sect. Granadillastrum (Passifloraceae, subg. Passiflora) discovered in the central montane forest of Peru
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Lectotypification of Phillipsia straminea (Sarcoscyphaceae, Ascomycota), an extinct fungus from Chichijima Island, Ogasawara Islands
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Attalea pycnocarpa versus Attalea sagotii (Arecaceae): the resurrection of a misunderstood Amazonian palm
Published : 2026-02-12 -
New species of Hemileucoglossum (Geoglossaceae, Geoglossales, Geoglossomycetes) from Southwest China
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Four new species in the fern genus Lepisorus (Polypodiaceae) based on morphological and chromosome information and taxonomic notes on L. confluens
Published : 2026-02-12 -
Zamia urarinorum (Cycadales, Zamiaceae), a new cycad species from wetland forests of Loreto, Peru
Published : 2026-02-12
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Published : 2023-05-01Xanthagaricus montgomeryensis sp. nov. (Agaricaceae, Agaricales) from Chichawatni Forest, Punjab Pakistan
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Tessmannia princeps (Fabaceae), a new rainforest tree from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
Published : 2025-03-20 -
Polygala bamaensis (Polygalaceae), a replacement name for the later homonym Polygala spatulata
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Published : 2016-05-20The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase
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The third opinion on fern phylogenetics with novel insights into their mitogenome evolution
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Published : 2020-05-04Aptenia ×vascosilvae (A. cordifolia × A. haeckeliana) (Aizoaceae), the new nothospecies from which the horticulturally popular cultivar Aptenia ‘Red Apple’ was derived
