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Blumea is an international journal on the biodiversity, evolution and biogeography of plants, including systematics, floristics, phylogeny, morphology and anatomy.
For floristic studies, the focus is on tropical Africa south of the Sahara, tropical Southeast Asia with a strong emphasis on Malaysia, and South America with an emphasis on the Guyanas. Papers in Blumea are subjected to peer review and are in English. Blumea is published three times a year, in A4 format and comprises about 300 pages in total. Blumea is an open access journal, applying a CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses). All issues publilshed after November 2003 are publicly available through Ingenta. Papers are published using a Fast Track system. This implies that on publication the papers are imme