The current ISTA List of Stabilized Plant Names represents the 5th edition of this work. Previous editions were completed and published in 1966, 1983, 1988, and 2001. Individual names on the List are stabilized for a period of at least six years. Because numerous changes were made for the 2001 edition, the ISTA Nomenclature Committee thereafter refrained from proposing changes to any name, regardless of its initial date of stabilization, until 2007. Although only six years have elapsed since the last edition many changes or adjustments in nomenclature for the plants treated therein have occurred. These mostly result from recent advancements in taxonomic classifcation or from the nomenclatural actions of an International Botanical Congress, the latter reflected in the 2006 International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code) (ICBN) adopted by the 2005 Vienna Congress (J. McNeill et al., Regnum Vegetabile 146, A. R. G. Gantner Verlag, 2006). The recent changes to the list were presented in a document "Proposed Changes to the ISTA List of Stabilized Plant Names" approved by Committee vote and submitted to and approved by the 28th ISTA Congress in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil in 2007.

The ISTA List of Stabilized Plant Names continues to be available as a web document at http://www.ars-grin.gov/~sbmljw/istaintrod.html on the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  This is easily accessible via a GRIN link from the ISTA web page for the NOM Committee.  A new web page for searching this nomenclature has now been created, at ->http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxassoc.pl with versions in French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish in addition to English.  The names on this List can be searched in conjunction with other GRIN data, such as distribution, economic uses, or common names, and easy access to these other data is available via links from the entries on the List. 

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