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The Organization for Flora Neotropica (OFN) is a UNESCO Category B organization with the mission of, among other things, providing published information about the plants and fungi of the New World tropics (Neotropics). OFN was established in 1964, largely through the efforts of Drs. José Cuatrecasas and F. Raymond Fosberg. Beginning with the first Flora Neotropica monograph (a treatment ofSwartzia by R. S. Cowan in 1968), 67 volumes treating 905 species of fungi, 18 species of lichens, 228 species of bryophytes, and 5971 species of flowering plants have been published. Despite this impressive record of accomplishment, it is apparent that the rate of monograph production is neither sufficient to supply the need for information about the plants of the Neotropics nor fast enough to keep ahead of the rapid destruction of Neotropical habitats. Recommendations are made for improving the productivity of OFN.
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Forero, E., Mori, S. The Organization for Flora Neotropica. Brittonia 47, 379–393 (1995). https://doi.org/10.2307/2807566
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