Counting counts: revised estimates of numbers of accepted species of flowering plants, seed plants, vascular plants and land plants with a review of other recent estimates

By Eimear Nic Lughadha, R. Govaerts, I. Belyaeva, N. Black, H. Lindon, R. Allkin, Robert E. Magill, N. Nicolson. 2016

155 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/40e213b37b11d7bd878f03c14a772cfeabbf253e

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. K. D. Hyde
2. Paul P. Smith
3. Eimear Nic Lughadha

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. K. D. Hyde
2. Eimear Nic Lughadha

In Plant Science

1. K. D. Hyde
2. P. W. Crous
3. Paul P. Smith
4. M. Dayarathne
5. Asha J. Dissanayake
6. E. McKenzie

Citations in the corpus

• New scientific discoveries: Plants and fungi (2020, background): “…c. 380,000 are vascular plants, with 370,000 belong to the largest phylum, flowering plants (Angiospermae), although these numbers are debated (Nic Lughadha et al., 2016; Nic Lughadha, Bachman, & Govaerts, 2017) and the recently completed World Checklist of Vascular Plants lists 347,298 accepted…”
• GlobalTreeSearch: The first complete global database of tree species and country distributions (2017, background): “Since the time of Linnaeus, botanical exploration and discovery has hugely expanded, but the precise number of plant species still remains uncertain, with current estimates suggesting there are 370,495 seed plants (Lughadha et al., 2016).”