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Annals of Botany 2005 96(2):253-260; doi:10.1093/aob/mci172
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International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature 1.0

ICPN WORKING GROUP, M. MADELLA1,*, A. ALEXANDRE2, T. BALL3

1 Department of Archaeology and the McDonald Institute, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK, 2 CNRS, CEREGE, Europôle de l'Arbois, BP80, 13 545 Aix en Provence Cedex 04, France and 3 375 A Joseph Smith Building, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA

* For correspondence. E-mail mm10018{at}cam.ac.uk

Received: 9 August 2004    Returned for revision: 20 December 2004    Accepted: 4 April 2005    Published electronically: 8 June 2005

• Background Phytoliths (microscopic opal silica particles produced in and between the cells of many plants) are a very resilient, often-preserved type of microfossil and today, phytolith analysis is widely used in palaeoenvironmental studies, botany, geology and archaeology. To date there has been little standardization in the way phytoliths are described and classified.

• Scope This paper presents the first International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature (ICPN), proposing an easy to follow, internationally accepted protocol to describe and name phytoliths.

Key words: Phytoliths, nomenclature, systematic, description, code


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