Flora of North America North of Mexico Guide for Contributors—May 2006
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2. Plumbago zeylanica Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 151. 1753 * Doctorbush Plumbago scandens Linnaeus Plants herbaceous. Stems prostrate, climbing, or erect, glabrous. Leaves petiolate (to 1.5 cm) or sessile; blade ovate, lance-elliptic, or spatulate to oblanceolate, (3--)5--9(--15) x (1--)2.5--4(--7) cm, base attenuate, apex acute, acuminate, or obtuse. Inflorescences 3--15(--30) cm, rachises glandular, viscid; floral bracts lanceolate, 3--7 x 1--2 mm. Flowers heterostylous; calyx 7--11(--13) mm, tube glabrous but with stalked glands along length of ribs; corolla white, 17--33 mm, tube 12.5--28 mm (less than 2 times length of calyx), lobes 5--12 x 3--3.5 mm; stamens included. Capsules 7.5--8 mm. Seeds reddish brown to dark brown, 5--6 mm. Flowering year-round. Palm groves, thickets, shady hummocks, shell mounds, rocky places in open areas; 0--50 m; Ariz., Fla., Tex.; Mexico; Central America; South America; Asia; Africa; Pacific Islands. Plumbago zeylanica and P. scandens, both Linnaean species, have heretofore been treated as distinct, the former name applied exclusively to Old World plants, the latter to New World specimens. John Edmondson (pers. comm.) indicates that he believes this “could be a classic case of New World and Old World taxonomists each doing their own thing.” Plants in herbaria under these two names appear indistinguishable. Appendix C. Checklist for Authors of Vascular Taxa for the Flora of North America Please submit a copy of this form with your manuscript(s) and provide details as they should appear in the front matter. Print your: (1) name ___________________________________________________________ (2) affiliation & address _______________________________________________ Taxonomic headings (family, genus, species, infraspecies, as appropriate) ___ Authority and place of publication is provided; all included taxa are published (no “comb. nov.”) ___ Vernacular name is provided ___ Name derivation is provided ___ Basionym with author(s) and bibliographic citation is provided ___ Synonyms with author(s) but no bibliographic citations are provided; formae, except for basionyms, are excluded Special status indicated by letter(s) at the end of taxon heading ___ Taxa of conservation concern are marked with a “C” ___ Taxa that are endemic are marked with an “E” ___ Taxa selected by author to be illustrated are marked with an “F” ___ Taxa that are introduced are marked with an “I” ___ Taxa that are weedy are marked with a “W” Keys ___ All treated taxa are included in the key ___ Keys are indented with couplets numbered ___ Leads of each couplet are parallel; lead with fewer subordinate couplets placed first ___ Key couplets and descriptions agree (descriptions confirm key leads) ___ Infraspecies are keyed after species description, not within the key to species Descriptions ___ All included taxa are described ___ Generic descriptions are parallel within families; specific descriptions are parallel within genera ___ Units of measure are used consistently and are appropriate to precision of measurement ___ Extreme limits of measurements and/or uncommon character states are given in parentheses ( ) ___ Important extraterritorial character states are given in square brackets [ ] ___ Only published chromosome numbers are given
___ Phenology, habitat, and elevation statements are provided for all taxa Distribution statements ___ Statements cover the worldwide distribution; specific regions are listed except at family level ___ Number of taxa worldwide and in the flora are given for family, genus, and species with infraspecies ___ Statements for species and/or infraspecies list Canadian province and U.S. state abbreviations ___ Dot placements for Greenland, larger Canadian provinces, and Alaska are indicated as needed
___ Complete sentences are used References ___ In-text citations are given either under Selected References or Other References ___ Complete citation information is provided for Selected References and Other References
Illustrations will be drawn from herbarium specimens selected or approved by the author. Additional materials such as living specimens or photographs are extremely useful, chiefly when details are not readily apparent in dried specimens. (Instructions for artwork for the bryophyte volumes are provided at the bryophyte website, http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna). Before the artist begins illustrating your taxa, the following items must be provided:
The order of the illustrations follows the text; please provide the adopted taxonomic sequence as soon as it is available. One species for each genus and about every sixth species is illustrated. 2. Clear instructions for the artist The instructions may be sent in an email or a letter accompanying the list of species to be illustrated, on Post-It notes accompanying the specimens, or given in a telephone conversation with the artist (the lead editor of the volume will tell you who is the artist for your plants). At minimum, indicate which features of which taxa are to be illustrated. Typically a figure of a species is 1/3 of one of the panels that extend across the top of a page in the volumes and consists of a habit, a flower, and a fruit However, flexible layout of the art is possible. If species look similar you may want to choose one habit and several flowers (or fruits or leaves) to depict useful diagnostic features. This must be approved by the lead editor before the artist starts work on it. Descriptions from your treatment, even if still a rough draft, are extremely helpful to the artist. 3. Selected specimens and other materials to be used as the basis for illustrations To ensure accuracy you should select your own reference specimens for the artist to use. If possible, provide photographic slides or prints (these are filed with your instructions for safekeeping and will be returned to you). If slides are not available, provide references to publications of photos that show the features to be illustrated. The lead editor of the volume will tell you where the specimens and other materials should be sent. Please also copy the Managing Editor at the address below on all correspondence relating to the illustrations or if you wish to visit Missouri Botanical Garden to select specimens. Kay Yatskievych, Managing Editor Flora of North America Project Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166 0299 email: Kay.Yatskievych@mobot.org phone: 314-577-9524 Scans of the drawings for review will be sent simultaneously to the manuscript author and taxon editor at each step of the process: (1) initial pencil, (2) corrected pencil, and (3) final ink. Please review the artwork carefully and expeditiously. ALL changes should be made in the pencil stages. It is very important that you notify the artist as quickly as possible if you approve the art or if there are corrections that need to be made.
I have kept a photo of all the specimens I selected at MO for the artist. If there is any problem, contact me to ask specific questions. See also: http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/plants/plant3/alpinus.htm. Illustrate Aster alpinus subsp. vierhapperi using the elements below from the combined generic and species description and include: 1) habit of plant, showing underground rootstock, leaves, and capitulescence 2) head oriented so as to show clearly the phyllaries (i.e., slightly from the back) and rays 3) a cypsela or a disc floret 
H erbs perennial, cespitose, with 1--5(--8+) rosettes, scapiform. Rhizomes elongate, 2--7+ mm diam., woody, and thick, woody, branched caudices, +/- covered with marcescent leaf bases. Stems erect to ascending, 1 per rosette, often reddish or brownish, relatively stout (0.7--2.5 mm diam. [to 3 mm diam. in fruit], flaring to 2.5--4(--5) mm [to 6 mm in fruit] under heads), 0.2--3.2 dm [to 4 dm in fruit], simple, +/- densely white villous, becoming nearly woolly distally under heads, short-glandular or not proximally to +/- densely short- or long-glandular distally under heads. Leaves basal and cauline, margins entire, densely villous-ciliate, faces +/- densely villous, +/- densely short-glandular or (distal mainly) not; basal persistent or marcescent, petiolate to subpetiolate or sometimes sessile; petiole 7--38 mm; blade oblanceolate or obovate to spatulate, 3-nerved, 10--112 x 2.5--14 mm, base tapering or attenuate, margins entire, apex +/- acute to rounded; cauline leaves sessile (occasionally petiolate), lanceolate or lance-oblong to linear-lanceolate or linear, 7--43(--50) x 1--6(--8) mm, progressively reduced distally. Heads radiate, borne singly, 1.5--2.1 cm (flattened, excluding rays).
****** Note that the illustration conforms nicely to the instructions. Example 2. Author’s instructions to artist—providing features to be illustrated within the list of species treated: 8. Mirabilis .... Section Oxybaphoides 8.8. M. oxybaphoides 8.9. M. laevis 8.9.1. M. laevis var. crassifolia – illustrate habit, flower, fruit 8.9.2. M. laevis var. crassifolia 8.9.3. M. laevis var. crassifolia ....
Section Oxybaphus 8.12. M. albida – illustrate fruit from eastern and western populations 8.13. M. melanotricha – illustrate habit, flower, fruit 8.14. M. linearis ....
Note that author checked details and made a clear comment regarding number of stamens to illustrate.  |