Biodiversity Inventory of Asian Genera of Convolvulaceae (Morning Glory Family)

旋花科（英语：Convolvulaceae）（牵牛花科）是一个中等规模的科（50-60属，2000种），主要分布在热带植物中，只受到分类学家的零星关注。因此，物种的身份和这些分类到可靠的可识别的属是有问题的。该集团的专家，夏威夷主教博物馆的乔治斯台普斯博士，正在研究该家庭的大多数亚洲成员，特别是对属盖库利纳，里韦阿，和Blinkalia。如果能够简化这一核查据称是新分类群的进程，那么就可以通过提高研究工作的效率，加快完成全球生物多样性清单。 这些活动包括为热带和亚热带亚洲（巴基斯坦以东至菲律宾，中国以南至澳大利亚昆士兰州）旋花科所有已描述的分类群汇编一个可在互联网上查阅的经认证的命名者。如果一个属有一个公认的分类，并且该分类与最近收集的主要博物馆收藏的标本相一致，则这些种和种下分类单元的名称将被纳入命名者。在没有公认的分类存在（属银背草属，Merremia和Jacquemontia），修订工作将开始在亚洲分类群，作为世界范围内的治疗以后的基础。将特别关注早期的科学名称（通常由欧洲分类学家），这些名称在当代分类中没有考虑到。命名者将奋进追踪所有的学名，并提供它们目前的配置，通过文献和选定的标本引文提供文件。这项研究将主要在欧洲和英国的植物标本馆和图书馆进行，并在PI的家乡机构进行更详细的研究时求助于标本贷款。这些成果将是一系列分类学修订，提供更好的分类学鉴定方法，改进种属和部落级别的分类，并促进命名改革。命名者本身将提供旋花科亚洲分类群的第一个清单。 创建命名者的过程将揭示如何使新的、未描述的物种的分类学验证过程更有效，从而增强分类学事业。

The Convolvulaceae (morning glory family) is a moderate-size family (50-60 genera, 2000 species worldwide) of mostly tropical plants, which has received only sporadic attention from taxonomists. Consequently, the identity of species and the classification of these into reliably identifiable genera are problematic. A specialist on the group, Dr. George Staples of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii, is studying the mostly Asian members of the family, focusing especially on the genera Operculina, Rivea, and Blinkworthia. If this process of verifying purportedly new taxa could be streamlined then the completion of a global biodiversity inventory could be expedited through greater efficiency of research effort. The activities include the compilation of an Internet-accessible and authenticated nomenclator for all described taxa of Convolvulaceae in tropical and subtropical Asia (Pakistan east to the Philippines and China south to Queensland, Australia). Where a genus has an accepted classification and the taxonomy has been reconciled with recently collected specimens housed in the major museum collections, those species and infraspecific taxon names will be incorporated into the nomenclator. Where no accepted classification exists (the genera Argyreia, Merremia, and Jacquemontia), revisionary work will commence on the Asian taxa, as a basis for worldwide treatments later. Special research attention will be paid to early scientific names (usually by European taxonomists) that have not been taken into account in contemporary classifications. The nomenclator will endeavor to trace all scientific names and provide their current disposition, with documentation via literature and selected specimen citations.This research will be carried out primarily in European and British herbaria and libraries, with recourse to specimen loans for more detailed study at the PI's home institution. The products will be a series of taxonomic revisions that provide better methods of taxonomic identification, improve classification at the specific, generic, and tribal levels, and contribute to nomenclatural reform. The nomenclator itself will provide the first inventory of Asian taxa of Convolvulaceae. And the process for creating the nomenclator will shed light onto how the process for taxonomic verification of new, undescribed species can be made more efficient and thereby enhance the taxonomic enterprise.