Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Title	Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Discipline	Botany
Abbreviation	Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
Publisher	Missouri Botanical Garden
Country	United States
Frequency	Quarterly
History	1914–present
Issn	0026-6493

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Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Missouri Botanical Garden dedicated to systematic botany, taxonomy, and plant biodiversity. The journal provides monographic treatments, floristic accounts, and phylogenetic studies that serve researchers associated with institutions such as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Botanical Garden, and the United States Department of Agriculture. Contributors have included curators and scientists from the Field Museum, the Natural History Museum, London, the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, and universities like Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Oxford.

History

Founded in 1914 under the sponsorship of the Missouri Botanical Garden and its director Henry Shaw's successors, the journal emerged during an era of botanical exploration that included expeditions tied to the United Fruit Company and collectors who worked with institutions such as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the New York Botanical Garden. Early editors and contributors were connected to figures and institutions like John Muir, Asa Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, and the United States National Herbarium. Over the twentieth century the journal documented floristic surveys from regions including the Amazon Basin, the Congo Basin, Madagascar, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and the Mediterranean Sea littoral, reflecting shifts in botanical priorities influenced by events such as the International Botanical Congress meetings and collaborations with the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

The journal emphasizes systematic treatments, monographs, and revisions of plant families and genera with relevance to collections at institutions like the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew herbarium, the Harvard University Herbaria, the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium, and regional herbaria including the Herbarium Berolinense and the National Herbarium of the Netherlands. Typical subjects include taxonomic revisions of angiosperms, gymnosperms, pteridophytes, and cryptogams, phylogenetic analyses employing techniques contemporaneous with work at laboratories such as the Smithsonian Institution Molecular Lab, biogeographic studies linked to research centers like the Institute of Tropical Forestry, and nomenclatural proposals consistent with the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. The journal has published major treatments of families and genera including work on Fabaceae, Orchidaceae, Asteraceae, Poaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Rutaceae, Myrtaceae, Melastomataceae, Rubiaceae, Annonaceae, Lauraceae, Malvaceae, Bromeliaceae, Gesneriaceae, Cactaceae, Ericaceae, Cyperaceae, Salicaceae, Mimosaceae, and Polygonaceae.

Published quarterly by the Missouri Botanical Garden Press, the journal follows peer review procedures common among outlets such as Taxon, Systematic Botany, Journal of Systematics and Evolution, and PhytoKeys. Editorial boards have included scientists affiliated with Harvard University Herbaria, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the New York Botanical Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Field Museum of Natural History. Production and distribution have intersected with publishers and aggregators tied to institutions like JSTOR, BioOne, and library services at the Library of Congress and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Special issues have been guest-edited in collaboration with organizations including the National Science Foundation, the Botanical Society of America, and the International Association for Plant Taxonomy.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in major bibliographic services used by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, University of California, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the New York Botanical Garden. Indexing services include those operated by entities such as Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), Scopus (Elsevier), BIOSIS Previews, and aggregators that serve institutions like the Biodiversity Heritage Library and JSTOR. Citation tracking and impact data are reported in platforms associated with Google Scholar, CrossRef, and library catalogs of the Library of Congress and major botanical research centers.

The journal has published influential monographs and revisions that have affected taxonomy and floristics in collaboration with botanists and institutions such as G.H.K. Thwaites, Arthur Cronquist, Curtis Gates Lloyd, Charles Darwin-era correspondents, and modern researchers from Kew Gardens, the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, and the Field Museum. Landmark contributions include revisions of Annonaceae genera, comprehensive treatments of Neotropical Bromeliaceae, phylogenetic reclassifications in Fabaceae and Orchidaceae, and floristic inventories of regions like the Guiana Shield, Andean cloud forests, and the Hispaniola flora. These works have been cited in monographs from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and integrated into databases maintained by the International Plant Names Index and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The journal is regarded by curators and taxonomists at institutions such as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the New York Botanical Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum, and academic departments at Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley as a reputable venue for systematic botany. Its contributions have informed conservation planning with organizations like the IUCN and national agencies including the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and have been used in floristic syntheses published by the Missouri Botanical Garden Press and referenced in monographs from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Botanical Society of America. Scholars track its influence via citation indexes maintained by Clarivate Analytics, Scopus, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Category:Botany journals Category:Publications established in 1914