Checklist of New Taxa Recently Entered into the International Plant Names Index III

Starting in December 2022, the editors of the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) have implemented a ‘new registration system for vascular plant names’. The research aims to upload newly published taxa in local journals, national floras, and monographs in Central Asia and adjacent regions to this database, as the international community is unaware of many taxa (subgenera, species, subspecies, varieties, etc.) newly published for science. The scientific and practical importance of this work is that it prevents the duplication of names for newly discovered taxa. In particular, some taxa have been repeatedly published under the same name. Research methodology: local and national publications of taxa newly discovered for science in different years. As a result of the research, a total of 44 taxa published between 1875 and 2026 (1 subgenus, 17 sections, 4 species, 7 subspecies, etc.) were entered into the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) database. It should be noted that, when entering the published taxa into the IPNI database, some taxa were directly corrected and completed in coordination with the IPNI editors. For instance, it is not Convolvulus sect. Pannosa Boiss., but Convolvulus sect. Pannosi Boiss.; not Dracocephalum ambiguus (Trautv.) Turdiboev & B.T.Drew, but Dracocephalum ambiguum (Trautv.) Turdiboev & B.T.Drew. The contribution of this research to the relevant field of knowledge is that information is being systematically and consistently entered and updated into the IPNI database, which is considered the most widely used and standardized nomenclatural resource. The practical significance of the results is that certain taxa, such as Horaninovia sogdiana E.N.Blagov., have not been published or cited in any database or in local and national floras.

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