Checklist of the flowering plants of Sub-Saharan Africa
An index of accepted names and synonyms

SABONET Report No. 42
R.R. Klopper, C. Chatelain, V. Banninger, C. Habashi, H.M. Steyn, C. de Wet, T.H. Arnold, L. Gautier, G.F. Smith & R. Spichiger.
In press, expected publication date March 2006
900 pp.
ISBN 1-919976-27-2.
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The African Plant Checklist and Database Project (APCD) provides botanists with the first-ever angiosperm checklist and database for Sub-Saharan Africa. This was achieved by merging two existing datasets for Southern and Tropical Africa. The APCD, for the first time, gives accurate statistics for the angiosperm flora of Sub-Saharan Africa. There are 50,136 current taxa in the database, with an additional 393 taxa where there are discrepancies in genus concept between the two original datasets. Taxa are arranged into 274 families and 3,802 current genera. In the checklist each current name and synonym is preceded by a Flora code, indicating the source of the name, i.e. either the Southern or Tropical African dataset, or both. An asterisk attached to the code indicates a naturalised taxon. In this way taxa that are indigenous in, for instance, Tropical Africa, but naturalised in Southern Africa, can be identified. By pointing out problems and discrepancies in taxonomic opinion between the two original datasets, the APCD highlights taxa where further research is necessary.