''Annales Botanici Fennici'' is a bimonthly

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covering fungi and plant systematics,

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, and nomenclature. The journal also accepts articles on

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and

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, and

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History

The journal was established by the Societas Biologica Fennica Vanamo in 1964. It replaced two previous series, which had been in circulation from 1923 to 1963, called ''Annales Botanici Societatis Zoologicae Fennicae Vanamo'' and ''Archivum Societatis Zoologicae Fennicae Vanamo''. The former ran for 35 volumes, while the latter ran for 18. The first

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was Rauno Ruuhijärvi. From 1978 to 1994, it was published by the Finnish Botanical Publishing Board. In 1980, the journal ''Acta Botanica Fennica'' was split off from the ''Annales''. The purpose of it was to print longer, more comprehensive

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s at least 64 pages long, which did not fit into the short quarterly format of the ''Annales''. ''Acta'' was in print until 2009. The Finnish Botanical Publishing Board became the Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board in 1994 and has continued to publish the journal since then. The Finnish

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now sponsor the journal. Beginning in 2022, the journal moved to an online-only format starting with its 59th volume.

References

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