About the key
Contributors
The key has been coded by a wide range of international collaborators, many of whom also produced the family synopses.
Character coding
It is possible that, due to different interpretations of character states, minor problems may arise with key functionality. In such cases these will be remedied in the next version of the key. If you encounter any such problems, please inform the Neotropikey team by emailing neotropikey@kew.org.
Geographical scope
Whilst the principal focus of the key is plant families in the Neotropics, some contributors have chosen to include taxa from non-tropical parts of Latin America.
Taxonomic scope
Whilst the principal taxonomic focus of the key is native plants, we have also endeavoured to include taxa that are most commonly cultivated or naturalised. However, it should be noted that not all cultivated or naturalised taxa have not been included.
