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New Zealand Journal of Botany

The New Zealand Journal of Botany aims to disseminate peer-reviewed research on the botany, mycology and phycology of New Zealand and the southern hemisphere. The Journal publishes original research papers, review papers, short communications, perspectives, letters, forum articles and book reviews. We welcome submissions on all aspects of the botany, mycology and phycology of the South Pacific, Australia, South America and Southern Africa. The journal’s subject matter encompasses biosystematics and biogeography, ecology, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, reproductive biology, structure and development, taxonomy, ethnobotany, palaeobotany, bryology, lichenology, mycology, plant pathology and phycology.

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Article	Authors	Year
Te reo Māori and botanical nomenclature as complementary naming systems for New Zealand’s flora	Peter B. Heenan, Matt S. McGlone & Aaron D. Wilton	2021
Lineage through time analyses have their limitations: the case of the New Zealand flora	James K. McCarthy, Matt S. McGlone & Peter B. Heenan	2020
A biological and ecological review of the endemic New Zealand genus Alseuosmia (toropapa; Alseuosmiaceae)	Lara D. Shepherd, Peter J. de Lange, Andrew Townsend & Leon R. Perrie	2020
Plio-Pleistocene environmental changes shape present day phylogeography of New Zealand’s southern beeches (Nothofagaceae)	Nicolas J. Rawlence, Benjamin C. M. Potter, Nic Dussex, Lachie Scarsbrook, David A. Orlovich, Jonathan M. Waters, Matt McGlone & Michael Knapp	2020
Pterostoma neehoffii (cf. Zamiaceae): a new species of extinct cycad from the middle Miocene of New Zealand and an overview of fossil New Zealand cycads	John G. Conran, Jennifer M. Bannister, Uwe Kaulfuss & Daphne E. Lee	2020
Integrated ex situ conservation strategies for endangered New Zealand Myrtaceae species	Jayanthi Nadarajan, Karin van der Walt, Carlos A. Lehnebach, Hassan Saeiahagh & Ranjith Pathirana	2020
An updated classification of the basal grade of Asteraceae (= Compositae): from Cabrera’s 1977 tribe Mutisieae to the present	Liliana Katinas & Vicki A. Funk	2020
Microcystins in New Zealand: a review of occurrence, congener diversity and cell quotas	Jonathan Puddick, Georgia Thomson-Laing & Susanna A. Wood	2019
Cenozoic formation and colonisation history of the New Zealand vascular flora based on molecular clock dating of the plastid rbcL gene	Peter B. Heenan & Matt S. McGlone	2019

New Zealand Journal of Botany

The New Zealand Journal of Botany aims to disseminate peer-reviewed research relevant to the botany, mycology, and phycology of New Zealand and the southern hemisphere. We welcome submissions relevant to all aspects of the botany, mycology, and phycology of the South Pacific, Australia, South America, and Southern Africa. The journal’s subject matter encompasses biosystematics and biogeography, ecology, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, reproductive biology, structure and development, taxonomy, ethnobotany, palaeobotany, bryology, lichenology, mycology, plant pathology, and phycology. NZJB is a publication of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

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