Index Nominum Familiarum Plantarum Vascularium. 2006. (Botanical Review, 71:1-2). 291 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

A list of 2510 vascular plant family names is provided, valid or not validly published as well as legitimate and not legitimate. Each entry has a full bibliographical reference, nomenclatural status, generic type (when based on a generic name), means of validation, original place of publication for pre-1789 works, isonyms, invalid names proposed prior to name's validation, first use of correct orthography (if not given in the original publication), first uses of other orthographic variations, divisional placements of typified names,i ndication of acceptance in the botanical literature after 1960, and a four - letter abbreviation for the legitimate family name. In addition, nomenclaturally correct, typified names are listed for the ranks of order, superorder, subclass, class, subdivision, division/phylum, and sub kingdom (for a total of 753 names), etc.