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Issue: Vol. 497 No. 1: 16 April 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-04-16
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.497.1.6
Page range: 54–56
Abstract views: 40
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Three new combinations and one lectotypification of fern and lycophyte taxa from the French overseas territories

Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, École Pratique des Hautes Études, CNRS, Université des Antilles; CP 39, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris,  France
Conservatoire Botanique National de Mascarin, 2 rue du Père Georges, Les Colimaçons, 97436 Saint-Leu, La Réunion; France EA 7462 Géoarchitecture, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 29200 Brest
Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha, Mt Coot-tha Road Toowong, Qld 4066, Australia Australian Tropical Herbarium, Sir Robert Norman Building, James Cook University Campus, Smithfield Queensland 4878, P.O .Box 6811 Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia
Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Pteridophytes Ferns Lycophytes new combinations

Abstract

With the exception of French Guiana and Adélie Land, the French Overseas Territories (FOTs) are islands and their biodiversity is remarkable in many ways. Notably, they harbour numerous unique taxa leading to exceptionally high rates of endemism. Among French endemic plants, 95% occur in the FOTs, accounting for ca. 4000 species of tracheophytes and ‘bryophytes’ (Gargominy et al. 2020).