Robert Lücking,^1,2,* Bibiana Moncada,^3,2 Bruce McCune,⁴ Edit Farkas,⁵ Bernard Goffinet,⁶ Dinah Parker,⁶ José Luis Chaves,⁷ László Lőkös,⁸ Peter R. Nelson,⁹ Toby Spribille,¹⁰ Soili Stenroos,¹¹ Timothy Wheeler,¹² Alba Yanez-Ayabaca,¹³ Karen Dillman,¹⁴ Otto T. Gockman,¹⁵ Trevor Goward,¹⁶ Jason Hollinger,¹⁷ Erin A. Tripp,¹⁸ John Villella,¹⁹ Wilson R. Álvaro-Alba,²⁰ Carlos Julio Arango,³ Marcela E. S. Cáceres,²¹ Luis Fernando Coca,²² Christian Printzen,²³ Camilo Rodríguez,³ Klara Scharnagl,²⁴ Ricardo Rozzi,^25,26 Edier Soto-Medina,²⁷ Lidia S. Yakovchenko<sup>28

1</sup>1 Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6–8, 14195 Ber
²3 Research Associate, Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore, Chicago,
³2 Licenciatura en Biología, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Cra. 4 No. 26D-54, Torre
⁴4 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, U.S.A
⁵5 Institute of Ecology and Botany, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
⁶6 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Rd., S
⁷7 Laboratorio de Hongos, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Apdo. 22-3100, Santo Domingo d
⁸8 Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H–1431 Budapest, Pf. 137, Hungary;
⁹9 Arts and Sciences Division, University of Maine at Fort Kent, 23 University Dr., Fort Kent, Maine
¹⁰10 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada;
¹¹11 Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland;
¹²12 Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, U.S.A.;
¹³13 Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador;
¹⁴14 Tongass National Forest, PO Box 309, Petersburg, AK 99833, U.S.A.;
¹⁵15 1747 Englewood Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104, U.S.A.;
¹⁶16 UBC Herbarium, Beaty Museum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada;
¹⁷17 7726 Fowler Ave Reno, NV 89506, U.S.A.;
¹⁸18 Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A.;
¹⁹19 Siskiyou Biosurvey LLC, Ashland, OR 97520, U.S.A.;
²⁰20 Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, Colombia;
²¹21 Departamento de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Avenida Vereador Olímpio Grande, s/
²²22 Herbario Universidad de Caldas (FAUC), Edificio Bicentenario, Calle 65 No. 26-10, Manizales, A.A.
²³23 Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;
²⁴24 Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A.;
²⁵25 Department of Philosophy, University of North Texas, 1704 West Mulberry, Denton, TX 76201, USA;
²⁶26 Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, and Universidad de Magallanes,
²⁷27 Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Valle, Calle 13 N.° 100
²⁸28 Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity FEB RAS, Stoletiya Vladivosto

^*Corresponding author's e-mail: r.luecking@bgbm.org