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Peer review is the cornerstone of the scientifi c publishing process. Experts volunteer their time to provide scientifi c critiques of manuscripts submitted to our journal that assist the editors to make informed decisions about which to accept. The increased pressure to publish in high-impact journals, the growing demand to turn around articles in a timely manner and the emergence of many new journals have placed great strain on our valued pool of reviewers. Therefore the Editors of Flora express our sincere thanks to the individuals listed here for contributing their valuable time in 2016 to help maintain the high standard of our journal.

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doi:10.1016/S0367-2530(16)30212-2

Abdelaziz Abbad, MoroccoKadry N. Abdel Kkhalik, Saudi ArabiaAnna Abrahão, BrazilWalid Abu Elsoud, EgyptChristopher Adams, USAAntônio José Camillo Aguiar, BrazilRamiro Aguilar, ArgentinaJulian Ahlborn, GermanyTulay Aytas AKCIn, TurkeyHossein Akhani, Iran Concepción L. Alados, SpainChristina Alba, USASuzana Alcantara, BrazilSandra Aliscioni, ArgentinaConchita Alonso, SpainEstevão Alves-Silva, BrazilAntonio Andrade, BrazilBeatriz Appezzato-da-Gloria, BrazilYosephnegusse Araya, UKMontserrat Arista, SpainLorena Ashworth, ArgentinaHarald Auge, GermanyMehmet Aybeke, TurkeyMubarek Ayup, ChinaAristéa Alves Azevedo, BrazilKatarzyna Barbara Baczek, PolandFrancisco Balao, SpainZouhaier Barhoumi, TunisiaFelipe Barrios-Masias, USASusanne Barth, IrelandGiorgio Bartolini, ItalyReza Basiri, IranCarol Baskin, USAAlessandro Bellino, ItalyKarim Ben Hamed, TunisiaRegina Berjano, SpainAndré Jean Bervillé, FranceRosangela Bevitori, BrazilIndra Bhatt, IndiaIndra Bhatt, IndiaLuc Philippe Régis Bidel, FranceMascha Bischoff, GermanyCeline Blanc-Jolivet, GermanyBarbara J. Bliss, USASandro Bogdanovic, CroatiaJerzy Bohdanowicz, PolandCleusa Bona, BrazilEduardo Borba, Brazil

Renee Borges, IndiaMonica Boscaiu, SpainMurilo Malveira Brandão, BrazilGary Brown, KuwaitMichael Brysch-Herzberg, GermanyKester Bull, ChileJames M. Bullock, UKJuergen Burkhardt, GermanyYve Canaveze, BrazilSherwin Carlquist, USADaniel Carstensen, DenmarkAngelino Carta, ItalyHervé Casabianca, FranceAlejandro Casas, MexicoFerhat Celep, TurkeyMarion Chartier, AustriaJin-Song Chen, ChinaShaoliang Chen, ChinaYouhua Chen, CanadaPaolo Cherubini, SwitzerlandAlexander Christianini, BrazilNikolaos Christodoulakis, GreeceMarcus Cianciaruso, BrazilRoque Cielo-Filho, BrazilMauricio A. Cisternas, ChileRegine Classen-Bockhoff, GermanyMarcel Coelho, BrazilClaudia Colesie, GermanyAbel Augusto Conceição, BrazilLucian Copolovici, EstoniaSalvatore Cosentino, ItalyJoana Costa, PortugalCatherine Coutand, FranceWalter D’Alessandro, ItalyVeit Martin Dörken, GermanyStefan Dötterl, AustriaAmots Dafni, IsraelArthur R. Davis, CanadaMaria Gabriela de Camargo, BrazilEdilia de la Rosa-Manzano, MexicoJosé Pires De De Lemos Filho, BrazilLuiza F A de Paula, BrazilLuiz Antonio de Souza, BrazilKaren De Toni, BrazilUlrich Deil, GermanyKleber Del Claro, BrazilIsabel Delgado Fernández, SpainEduardo Dellacassa, Uruguay

Diego Demarco, BrazilMonika Dering, PolandPanayotis Dimopoulos, GreeceHeidi Dobson, USACésar A. Domínguez, Mexico Tomas Domingues, BrazilBi-Cheng Dong, ChinaJelena J. Dragišic Maksimovic, SerbiaDebora Drucker, BrazilKarl Duffy, BelgiumChoimaa Dulamsuren, GermanyWalter Durka, GermanyAdrian G. Dyer, AustraliaMattias Edman, SwedenPedro Eisenlohr, BrazilThomas Eltz, GermanyClaudia Erbar, GermanyBrigitta Erschbamer, AustriaDiego Escobar, BrazilGamal Fahmy, EgyptSuzane Fank-de-Carvalho, BrazilCostas Fasseas, GreeceMaria Gabriela Fernandez Pepi, ArgentinaBeatriz Fernandez-Marin, SpainMartin Feulner, GermanyBronwen Forward, CanadaRafaela Forzza, BrazilWittko Francke, GermanyBarbara Fussi, GermanySanjay Gairola, United Arab EmiratesBeatriz G. Galati, ArgentinaLeonardo Galetto, ArgentinaNalin Suranjith Gama-Arachchige, Sri LankaQueila Garcia, BrazilGildas Gateble, New CaledoniaGünter Gerlach, GermanyDmitry A. German, Russian FederationFarrokh Ghahremaninejad, IranP.E. Gibbs, UKMarc Gibernau, FranceLuis Giménez-Benavides, SpainSean Gleason, USAVania Goncalves-Esteves, BrazilFavio Gonzalez, ColombiaRyutaro Goto, USAGerhard Gottsberger, GermanyJoaquin Goyret, USAMarius Grigore, Romania

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Karin Gross, SwedenRuediger Grote, GermanyElza Guimarães, BrazilStephane Guitet, FranceKe Guo, ChinaBianca Gustavino, ItalyMichal Hájek, CzechiaNorbert Hölzel, GermanyGustavo Habermann, BrazilAzadeh Haddadchi, AustraliaM. Haridasan, BrazilMarion O. Harris, USAThure Pavlo Avlo Hauser, DenmarkMartin Heil, MexicoJacob Heiling, USAHermann Heilmeier, GermanyHeike Heklau, GermanyIsabell Hensen, GermanyCarlos Herrera, SpainAsier Herrero, USAPablo J. Hidalgo, SpainPeter Hietz, AustriaAzuma Hiroshi, JapanNate Hough-Snee, USAAlisoun House, South AfricaHector Huarte, ArgentinaMaira Huerta-Reyes, MexicoLeopoldo Iannone, ArgentinaRosy Isaias, BrazilA. K. M. Mominul Islam, JapanAndreas Jürgens, GermanyNikhil S. Jaikumar, USACatarina Jakovac, BrazilZiba Jamzad, IranSteven Jansen, GermanySergio Jansen-González, Costa RicaAndrea Jara-Guerrero, EcuadorSenavirathna Mudalige Don Hiranya

Jayasanka, JapanGehan Jayasuriya, Sri LankaGottfried Jetschke, GermanyPedro Jiménez-Mejias, UKFlores Joel, MexicoSimon Joly, CanadaRobert Junker, AustriaZygmunt Kacki, PolandHartmut Kaiser, GermanyTibor Kalapos, HungaryRina Kamenetsky Goldstein, IsraelRaja Kanagaraj, GermanyAtsushi Kawakita, JapanShahrokh Kazempour-Osaloo, IranTanaka Kenzo, JapanSusan R. Kephart, USAMichael Kessler, SwitzerlandFrank Kienast, GermanyMatthias Klepsch, GermanyJette Knudsen, SwedenNataša K. Kociš Tubic, SerbiaSamantha Koehler, BrazilRosana Marta Kolb, BrazilJozef Kovacik, SlovakiaAsuka Koyama, JapanAgnieszka Kreitschitz, PolandJonas Kuppler, AustriaElzbieta Kuta, PolandNicoletta La Rocca, ItalyCarol L. Landry, USAMartin Lascoux, Sweden

Pierre Éric Lauri, FranceAmparo Lazaro, SpainValérie Le Corre, FranceSoizig Le Stradic, BrazilPeter Leins, GermanyFelipe Lezama, UruguayJunmin Li, ChinaShouli Li, USAYing Li, GermanyMingguang Li, ChinaS.Liede-Schumann, GermanyRuozhu Lin, ChinaZhenghe Lin, ChinaJuliana Lischka Sampaio Mayer, BrazilCanran Liu, AustraliaGuofang Liu, ChinaMichael Loik, USAPeter Lootens, BelgiumJordi Lopez-Pujol, SpainEric F. Lopresti, USAMelissa Luckow, USAKlaus Lunau, GermanyJonas V. Müller, UKIrena Macek, SloveniaArtur Maia, BrazilRK Maiti, MexicoCassie Majetic, USAJamie Males, UKKeerthi G. Mandyam, USAJessamyn Manson, CanadaMichael Manthey, GermanyAntonio Manzaneda, SpainCarmen Marcati, BrazilKatarzyna Marcysiak, PolandAmela Maria, ArgentinaBrian R. Maricle, USAMarija Marin, SerbiaMarta Mariotti Lippi, ItalyJuan Martinez-Sanchez, SpainAline Martins, BrazilPietro Maruyama, BrazilJames D. Mauseth, USANicholas McLetchie, USAMarcos Mendez, SpainMaria Olívia Mercadante-Simões, BrazilLucica Mihalte (Crisan), RomaniaPaulo Milet Pinheiro, BrazilJon Miranda-Apodaca, SpainRachel Mitchell, USAH. Moazzeni, IranMostafa Modarresi, Iran Karsten Mody, GermanyBrenda Molano-Flores, USAMarisa Molinas, SpainAndrea Mondon, ItalyNatalia Morandeira, ArgentinaLenka Moravcová, CzechiaAna Silvia Moreira, BrazilMark Mort, USALadislav Mucina, AustraliaJesus Munoz-Pajares, PortugalLyudmila Muravnik, Russian FederationYougasphree Naidoo, South AfricaJafet Nassar, VenezuelaBolivarian Luis Navarro, SpainAlireza Naqinezhad, Iran Gidi Ne’eman, IsraelJuan José Neiff, ArgentinaMassimo Nepi, Italy

Barbara Neuffer, GermanyAna Carolina Neves, BrazilDanilo Neves, USADaniel Nickrent, USAErik Nielsen, USAAnselmo Nogueira, BrazilJalil Noroozi, AustriaHelen M. North, FranceRichard Noyes, USABirgit Oelschlägel, GermanyTokiyo Okimura, JapanAdewole Olagoke, GermanyPaulo Oliveira, BrazilDenis Oliveira, BrazilMarciel Teixeira Oliveira, BrazilUbirajara Oliveira, BrazilAry Oliveiro-Filho, BrazilElen Oneal, USAAlma Orozco Segovia, MexicoOlusegun Osunkoya, AustraliaGerhard Overbeck, BrazilCanan Ozdemir, TurkeyRengin Özgür, TurkeyEvelin Ramóna Péli, HungaryMarcelo Pace, USALeticia Pacheco, MexicoEttore Pacini, ItalyElder Paiva, BrazilMaria Panitsa, GreeceEmerson Pansarin, BrazilAlessio Papini, ItalyJairo Patiño, SpainJuraj Paule, GermanyDerek Persoh, GermanyCraig Peter, South AfricaYiola Petropoulou, GreeceFabio Pinheiro, BrazilAna Pintado, SpainNatasa Pipenbaher, SloveniaRenata Piwowarczyk, PolandStefan Porembski, GermanyMaria I Pozo, BelgiumJavier Puntieri, ArgentinaRobert Raguso, USAHoma Rajaei, IranKishore Rajput, IndiaAnantanarayanan Raman, AustraliaKarumanchi S. Rao, IndiaLara Reale, ItalyMohammad Rezvani, Iran Sophia Rhizopoulou, GreeceLeila Riahi, TunisiaFreya Richardson, AustraliaAngelo Rita, ItalyJonatan Rodríguez, SpainVictor Rolo, South AfricaMikhail Romanov, Russian FederationLouis Ronse De Craene, UKEwa Roo-Zielinska, PolandVictor Rosas-Guerrero, MexicoCynthia Ross Friedman, CanadaDavi Rossatto, BrazilFederico Rossi, ItalyFrancois Rousset, FranceRafael Rubio de Casas, SpainJose Salvador Rubio-Asensio, SpainHans-Peter Rusterholz, SwitzerlandAlicia N. Sarcsic, ArgentinaYasaman Salmaki, Iran

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Diana Salles Sampaio, BrazilHirofumi Saneoka, JapanBráulio A. Santos, BrazilMauro Santos, BrazilTakehiro Sasaki, JapanOsama H. Sayed, Saudi ArabiaJürg Schönenberger, AustriaHanno Schaefer, GermanyJörg Schaller, GermanyJuliana Schietti, BrazilEva Schlecht, GermanyBoris O. Schlumpberger, GermanyShon Schooler, USADietmar Schwarz, GermanyChristine Scoffoni, USACharles P. Scutt, FranceAllan Sebata, ZimbabweAlexandre Sebbenn, BrazilAşkim Hediye Sekmen, TurkeyR. Selvaraj, IndiaSergey Shabala, AustraliaArshid shabir, IndiaHongbo Shao, ChinaZe-Hao Shen, ChinaAdam Shuttleworth, South AfricaFernando Silveira, BrazilSamuel Simkin, USABeryl Simpson, USARobert Skelton, AustraliaErik Smets, NetherlandsStella Maris Solís, ArgentinaNádia Somavilla, BrazilYaobin Song, ChinaArash Sotoodeh, FranceMariane S. Sousa-Baena, BrazilMarcelo Souza, BrazilJohannes Spaethe, GermanyKrzysztof Spalik, PolandThomas Spiegelberger, France

Johannes Stökl, GermanyThomas Stützel, GermanyKim Steiner, USADanijela Stesevic, MontenegroMalgorzata Stpiczynska, PolandJohn A. Strand, SwedenJeff Stuart, USAAlexander P. Sukhorukov, Russian FederationHang Sun, ChinaAlfonso Susanna, SpainSateesh Suthari, IndiaLaura M. Suz, UKJakub Tešitel, CzechiaLuana Tacuatia, BrazilJacques Tassin, FranceAlberto Teixido, BrazilTeresa Terrazas, MexicoMuthukumar Thangavelu, IndiaFrank Thomas, GermanyLise Thouvenot, FranceElisabeth Tolke, BrazilPeter Torok, HungarySaran Traoré, Burkina FasoFernanda Tresmondi, BrazilShane Robert Turner, AustraliaE. Uma, IndiaTuna Uysal, TurkeyBaris Uzilday, TurkeySusana Valencia-Díaz, MexicoEduardo van den Berg, BrazilErnst van der Maaten, GermanyTimotheüs Van Der Niet, NetherlandsSandra Varga, UKAndrea Vega, ArgentinaAbelardo Vegetti, ArgentinaErrol Vela, FranceMaik Veste, GermanyAna Vieira, BrazilPascal Vittoz, Switzerland

Sarah T. Wagner, GermanyJizhong Wan, ChinaWei Wang, ChinaBo Wang, ChinaYu-Jin Wang, ChinaJunfeng Wang, ChinaAnton Weber, AustriaYan Wei, ChinaMaximilian Weigend, GermanyErik Welk, GermanyZhongming Wen, ChinaMartin Werth, GermanyKarsten Wesche, GermanyJens Wesenberg, GermanyNorris H. Williams, USARüdiger Wittig, GermanyMarcin Woch, PolandJohn Wood, UKEri Yamasaki, SwitzerlandTakaki Yamauchi, JapanKazuo Yamazaki, JapanXuebing Yan, ChinaXuejun Yang, ChinaXueqing Yang, GermanyEdward Yeung, CanadaWen-Hua You, ChinaAndrew Young, AustraliaEkaterina A. Zakharova, Russian FederationGolshan Zare, TurkeyShahin Zarre, IranGraham Zemunik, PanamaMing Qi Zhang, ChinaLing Zhang, ChinaMingli Zhang, ChinaYongmei Zheng, ChinaYoubing Zhou, ChinaLi Zhu, ChinaLucía Melisa Zini, Argentina