The names are, of course, subject to change as additional information becomes available. Work is continuing on clarifying established synonymies and ensuring that citations of publications and names of authors are consistent. The list contains roughly 365 entries and is reduced from the preliminary list of over 1000 names encountered to date as having been applied to collections from the region. In order to format the data for the World Wide Web, some compromises had to be made in the character set used. As a result, diacritical marks have been omitted and the base letter of the alphabet used in its place so that the bibliography could be presented as a searchable database.
Many problems remain to be solved.
To use the checklist, click on the name of a genus and that will take you to the section of the checklist for that genus. We would appreciate being told of inaccuracies, suggested deletions and additions. Within genera as yet one must scroll through the list. Your comments and corrections are actively encouraged.