New Zealand Journal of Botany publishes original research papers on all aspects of the botany, mycology, and phycology of the South Pacific, Australia, South America, southern Africa, and Antarctica. The subject matter is of worldwide relevance and interest, covering biosystematics and biogeography, ecology, physiology and biochemistry, genetics and reproductive biology, structure and development, ethnobotany, palaeobotany, bryology, lichenology, mycology and plant pathology, and phycology.