Annales Botanici Fennici publishes original, previously unpublished papers on plant and fungal:

• systematics, evolution, phylogeography, taxonomy and nomenclature,
• population biology and genetics,
• physiology and molecular biology,
• terrestrial and aquatic ecology (including effects of climate change),
• ecology and reproduction of invasive species as well as their effects on native populations,
• phytogeography and paleoecology.

We also encourage submissions of in-depth reviews on any of the above-mentioned research areas as well as articles on research methodology that present and/or discuss methods of data gathering and processing, or interpretation of the results through statistical testing. Both theoretical and empirical works are warmly welcome.

Outside the scope are:

• new combination proposals or typifications without compelling reasons (i.e., without connections to more comprehensive systematic/taxonomic/nomenclatural studies),
• studies on cultivated plants, agriculture and related subjects (e.g. crop productivity, weed control),
• floristic notes (incl. new records) and numerical taxonomy,
• descriptive studies (e.g. floristic, anatomical, syntaxonomical, cytotaxonomical, ontogenetic),
• studies based on proxies (e.g., elevation, location) rather than on in-situ measured variables.