This Special Collection seeks to explore the patterns and processes of plant diversity and distribution at global and regional levels, highlight current risks to plant diversity, and inform future agendas for research and conservation. It is also a celebration of the first version with geographic data for all accepted taxa of the World Checklist of Vascular Plants released by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was co-released with the State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2023 report.

• Published: 9 October 2023

Editors:

Alexandre Antonelli, Rafaël Govaerts, Eimear Nic Lughadha, Renske E. Onstein, Rhian J. Smith, Alexander Zizka

• plant diversity
• plant species distributions