How many species of flowering plants are there?
Open Access
- 7 July 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 278 (1705) , 554-559
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1004
Abstract
We estimate the probable number of flowering plants. First, we apply a model that explicitly incorporates taxonomic effort over time to estimate the number of as-yet-unknown species. Second, we ask...Keywords
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