Alan Elliott‡, Stoffel P. Bester§, Ronell R. R. Klopper|¶, E. Charles Nelson#, Michael Pirie¤«Corresponding author: Alan Elliott ( aelliott@rbge.org.uk ) © Alan Elliott, Stoffel P. Bester, Ronell R. Klopper, E. Charles Nelson, Michael Pirie. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Elliott A, Bester SP, Klopper RRR, Nelson EC, Pirie M (2024) Curating an online checklist for Erica L. (Ericaceae): contributing to and supporting global conservation through the World Flora Online. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e121772 |  |
To support the work of the Global Conservation Consortium for Erica and update the Erica checklist in the World Flora Online (WFO), we have curated the taxonomic backbone in the WFO by expanding it to include updated nomenclatural information from IPNI, missing names present in WCVP, BODATSA, and from the International register of heather names database, a data source not readily available online. We also comment on the correct orthography of Erica heleophila Guthrie & Bolus and Erica michellensis Dulfer, the validity of Erica tegetiformis E.G.H.Oliv., and clarify the use of Erica adunca Benth. for a South African species rather than Erica triceps Link, which is here regarded as insufficiently known and of uncertain application.