Our coverage of unpublished reports by government agencies also will be incomplete. International compilations and monographs that transcribe records from other sources have not been processed. The omission of these sources was for utilitarian reasons. Some herbarium records have been included. The source of these is indicated in the database.
References indicates one place where the name of the taxon is recorded.
If the name was included in Day et al . Otherwise, the reference to a taxon's name is given as the first paper we located that cites the taxon. This is not necessarily the earliest report of the taxon.