Flora Europaea Online
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FloraVeg.EU is an online database of European vegetation and flora data prepared in various projects of the Vegetation Science Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, and the European Vegetation Survey Working Group of the International Association for Vegetation Science. It uses the Pladias database platform developed in collaboration with the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
The Vegetation part of the database presents the current version of the phytosociological (syntaxonomic) classification of European vegetation managed by the European Vegetation Classification Committee (EVCC). It is based on EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016, Applied Vegetation Science) and contains updates approved by the EVCC. The classification includes three hierarchical classification levels: class, order and alliance. Data on structure, ecology and biogeography, distribution maps (Preislerov et al. 2022, Applied Vegetation Science) and photographs are provided for individual vegetation types.
The Habitat part of the database presents the terrestrial part of the EUNIS Habitat Classification managed by the European Environment Agency and elaborated by the IAVS Working Group European Vegetation Survey (Chytr et al. 2020, Applied Vegetation Science). It includes three hierarchical levels. Brief descriptions, characteristic species combinations, distribution maps and links to phytosociological alliances are provided for individual habitat types.
The Flora part of the database focuses on native and naturalized flora occurring in Europe. Cultivated plants are not within the scope of the database, although the most commonly cultivated crops and woody plants are included. Taxon concepts and nomenclature largely follow the Euro+Med PlantBase. Species are characterized by their biological traits, origin, ecological indicator values and their occurrence in habitat and vegetation types.
Euro+Med PlantBase integrates and critically evaluates information from Flora Europaea, Med-Checklist, Flora of Macaronesia and from regional and national floras and checklists as well as additional taxonomic and floristic literature. This is complemented by the European and Mediterranean taxa of several families taken from the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) and of the Leguminosae from the International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS). Euro+Med PlantBase is continuously updated by an international network of taxonomic and regional editors and advisers, coordinated by the Euro+Med PlantBase Secretariat at the Botanic Garden Berlin.
Euro+Med PlantBase is now accessible via a new data portal, which is still partly under development. The new portal makes full use of the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy and all data have been migrated from the old system to the new. One of the most important features of the new portal is that corrections and additions to the database, e.g. new taxa and new area records, are immediately visible on the taxon pages.
The new data portal is not yet in its final version and there are still a number of known issues that have to be solved. However, because updating of the old database has been discontinued, the Euro+Med PlantBase Secretariat has decided to put the new portal online for review and information access.
This signpost list includes the titles and some descriptive text about floristic works for various parts of the world that are currently available online, but not necessarily in a format that allows their incorporation into the WFO portal. These are floras are presented in a variety of formats, including databases and PDF documents.
Any information on each floristic work included below is taken from the introductory text included on each site. No acknowledgement of the organisations and individuals that have been responsible for each of these resources is given and users should find such information on the sites themselves. In addition, the WFO Consortium takes no responsibility for any of the accuracy of data presented in any of these sites.
The resources are organised below by continent or region and then ordered by level of incorporation into the World Flora Online project following the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD).
Le site endemia.nc est consacr la flore de Nouvelle-Caldonie. Son objectif est de faire connatre toute l'tendue et la spcificit de la biodiversit de Nouvelle-Caldonie : les espces natives (endmiques et indignes) des milieux terrestres, marins et des eaux douces.
The primary goal of this site is to provide a flexible query tool to access information on Micronesian vascular plants from a taxonomic or geographical perspective at a variety of levels of detail. Site queries will produce a simple checklist with island distribution information. Continued efforts to optimize the capabilities of the site will add greater detail such as currently available on the Hawaiian and Marquesan Flora websites, but within an enhanced data structure. As a dynamic product, the site is designed to serve as the foundation of forthcoming comprehensive online Pacific Oceanic Flora web resource.
The Moorea Digital Flora Project an online resource on the flora of the island of Moorea, French Polynesia. It contains: Photographs and Descriptions of Moorean Plants, with an emphasis on common plants be they native, naturalized, or cultivated. A list of all pteridophyte species known to grow on Moorea, including pictures of living specimens taken in the field. Herbarium specimens from the University and Jepson Herbaria at the University of California at Berkeley were used when field pictures were not available. A Diagnostic Key to Pteridophytes of Moorea is gives as well as a section on the Ethnobotanical Uses of Pteridophytes. A checklist of all seed plants known from Moorea - 347 species to date. This information is derived from several sources: collections known from the UC Herbarium and the Bishop Museum, F. Raymond Fosberg's unpublished list of plants seen in herbaria and in person, Stan Welsh's Flora Societensis, some published collections by Jacques Florence from his Flore de la Polynsie Franaise vols. 1 and 2, and photographs from reliable sources.
Flora Malesiana (FM) is an international flora project aiming to name, describe and inventory the complete vascular plant flora of Malesia, the region including Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea. The Malesian biodiversity hotspot harbours a staggering vascular plant diversity estimated at more than 45,000 species. Published Flora Malesiana volumes, CD-ROMs and other output cover about 29% of the species in Malesia.
This site provides access to the following: PNGplants database: An internet accessible herbarium plant collection database of plants from Papua New Guinea. PNGtrees project: An interactive identification guide to the common trees of Papua New Guinea. Plant collectors of Papua New Guinea: Information about Papua New Guinean plant collectors and support staff. Census of Vascular Plants of Papua New Guinea. Names of vascular plants of Papua New Guinea. And Handbooks of the Flora of Papua New Guinea - Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3.
Volumes 1-30 and index of volumes 1-30. In English, translated from Russian, in PDF formats. (1968). By: Botanicheskii institut (Akademiia nauk SSSR). - Mifal tirgume ha-mada ha-Yisreeli. - Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. Publication info: Springfield Va: Israel Program for Scientific Translations; 1968.
This site provides information about the flowering plants and ferns of Zimbabwe. This is a sister site to the Flora of Botswana, Caprivi, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia websites, which together cover the Flora Zambesiaca area.
Un exemple de SINP rgional est celui de La Runion, qui a rcemment mis en place (2017) la plateforme Borbonica . Pour la flore, cet outil intgre des donnes issues de l'index de la flore vasculaire de La Runion (CBNM), ainsi que l'index des bryophytes de la Runion (CBNM, Universit de La Runion), ainsi que l'index des bryophytes de la Runion (CBNM, Universit de La Runion).
This site provides information about the flowering plants and ferns of Caprivi, sometimes known as the Caprivi Strip, which is part of Namibia. This is one of 6 e-floras which cover the Flora Zambesiaca area in south-central Africa. Five countries are now covered, namely Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe together with this e-flora about the Caprivi Strip.
La base de donne des plantes d'Afrique compte plus de 202559 noms de plantes avec leur statut nomenclatural. Elle est le fruit d'une collaboration entre les Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genve, le South African National Biodiversity Institute, Tela botanica et le Missouri Botanical Garden. Ces donnes ont pour origine: Pour l'Afrique tropicale: J.-P. LEBRUN & A. L. STORK (1991-2015). Enumration des plantes fleurs d'Afrique tropicale et Tropical African Flowering Plants: Ecology and Distribution, vol. 1-7. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genve. Pour l'Afrique australe: G. GERMISHUIZEN & N.L. MEYER, eds, (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Pretoria. Pour l'Afrique du nord: DOBIGNARD, A. & C. CHATELAIN (2010-2013) Index synonymique et bibliographique de la flore d'Afrique du Nord. vol. 1-5. Pour Madagascar Catalogue des Plantes vasculaires de Madagascar. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. La mise jour est rgulirement ralise sur la base de la littrature existante et des nouvelles publications. Toutes informations nouvelles ou corrections sont les bienvenues. La Recherche peut tre ralise par le nom scientifique ou la famille. Informations sur : donnes, standards, traitements, cartes.
This site provides information about the flowering plants and ferns of Malawi. This is one of 6 e-floras which cover the Flora Zambesiaca area in south-central Africa. Five countries are now covered, namely Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The 6th e-flora deals with the Caprivi Strip, which is part of Namibia.
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