BOTANICA PACIFICA: A JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION

Botanica Pacifica (BP) publishes peer-reviewed, significant research of interest to a wide audience of plant scientists in all areas of plant biology (structure, function, development, diversity, genetics, evolution, systematics), organization (molecular to ecosystem), and all plant groups and allied organisms (cyanobacteria, fungi, and lichens). Botanica Pacifica is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. Botanica Pacifica permits authors to retain the rights to their work.