Abstract:How detailed and explicit should information presented in a "new record" account be to make the new record officially acceptable, and what kind of documentation is required? In recent years, this question has come to prominence, for example, due to the increasing rate with which new national taxon records are appearing in popular orchid field guides. The scientifically deficient publication of such "new records" precludes the alleged occurrences in Thailand from becoming formally accepted in the scientific lit… Show more
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