Brittonia (journal)

*Brittonia*
Discipline	Systematic botany
Language	English; Spanish
Edited by	Benjamin M. Torke
Publication details
History	1931–present
Publisher	New York Botanical Garden Press (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly since 1957 (vol. 9); sporadically 1931–1956 (vols. 1–8)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Brittonia
Indexing;
ISSN	0007-196X (print); 1938-436X (web);
JSTOR	brittonia
OCLC no.	1537395
Links
	Journal homepage;

Brittonia is a quarterly, peer-reviewed botanical journal, publishing articles on plants, fungi, algae, and lichens. Published since 1931, it is named after the botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton. Since 2007, the journal has been published by Springer on behalf of the New York Botanical Garden Press, the New York Botanical Garden's publishing program. The current subtitle is: "A Journal of Systematic Botany". Currently, the journal is published quarterly, in both a paper and an online version. The editor-in-chief is Benjamin M. Torke.^[1]

The journal publishes research articles covering the entire field of the systematics of botany including anatomy, botanical history, chemotaxonomy, ecology, morphology, paleobotany, phylogeny, taxonomy and phytogeography. Each issue features articles by New York Botanical Garden staff members and by botanists on a worldwide basis. The journal also contains book reviews and announcements.^[2]

Scientists who have published in the journal include , , , Dennis Eugene Breedlove, Brian Boom, Sherwin Carlquist, , Alain Chautems, Thomas Bernard Croat, Arthur Cronquist, Thomas Franklin Daniel, Otto Degener, Laurence Dorr, Robert Louis Dressler, , Peter Goldblatt, , Walter Stephen Judd, Ellsworth Paine Killip, , Gwilym Lewis, Bassett Maguire, Lucinda McDade, John McNeill, Elmer Drew Merrill, Scott Alan Mori, , Timothy Plowman, Ghillean Prance, Peter Raven, Harold E. Robinson, Laurence Skog, , Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis, Julian Alfred Steyermark, , Warren L. Wagner, Dieter Wasshausen, , and Scott Zona.

List of editors[]

Benjamin M. Torke, 2016 to present
Lawrence M. Kelly, 2004–2015
Jacquelyn A. Kallunki, 1991–1994
Noel H. Holmgren, 1977–1990
John T. Mickel, 1976–1977
William Louis Culberson, 1975
Paul A. Fryxell, 1972–1975
John R. Reeder, 1967–1971
Peter H. Raven, 1963–1964
Rogers McVaugh, 1959–1963
Harold William Rickett, 1957–1958
various editorial committees, 1931–1956^[3]

References[]

^ "Brittonia" on Springer's website
^ "NYGB Press Books & Journals. Brittonia". NYBG (New York Botanical Garden), nybg.org.
^ Tiehm, Arnold (1987). "Index to the Authors and Their Papers in Volumes 1-38 (1931-1986) of Brittonia". Brittonia. 39 (4): 460–507. JSTOR 2807330.

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[Springer-1] "Brittonia" on Springer's website

[2] "NYGB Press Books & Journals. Brittonia". NYBG (New York Botanical Garden), nybg.org.

[3] Tiehm, Arnold (1987). "Index to the Authors and Their Papers in Volumes 1-38 (1931-1986) of Brittonia". Brittonia. 39 (4): 460–507. JSTOR 2807330.

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