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National Vegetation Information System
National Vegetation Information System, Version 6.0
Executive Steering Committee for Australian Vegetation Information (ESCAVI)
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2003
ISBN 0 642 54953 2
The following abbreviations were adapted from Chapman (2002) and the Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID4, 2000). HISPID was developed by a committee of representatives from all Australian Herbaria.
| cv. | - cultivar |
| f. | - form/ forma |
| fam. | - family |
| gen. nov. | - genus novus – a newly described genus |
| ined. | - ineditus (unpublished) |
| ms. | - manuscript (unpublished manuscript name - generally follows an author name) |
| p.p. | - pro parte (in part) |
| sect. | - section/sectio |
| s. lat. | - sensu lato (in the broad sense) |
| s. str. | - sensu stricto (in the narrow or strict sense) |
| sp. | - species (singular) |
| sp. aff. | - species with affinity to …, or close to … (NB. ‘aff. sp.’ should not be used) |
| sp. nov. | - species novus – a newly described species (NB. ‘nov. sp.’ should not be used) |
| spp. | - species (plural) |
| ssp. | - (not preferred - see subsp.) |
| subg. | - subgenus |
| subsp. | - subspecies |
| subspp. | - subspecies (plural) |
| syn. | - synonym |
| var. | - variety |
Notes