Internet Directory for Botany - Checklists and Floras, Taxonomical Databases, Vegetation

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General

AUTHORS:
Search the index of Botanical Authors (gopher at Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA).
CHROMOSOME NUMBERS:
Search the plant chromosome numbers (gopher at Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA).
COLLECTORS:
Botanical Collectors' Names from Index Herbariorum (gopher at Harvard University Herbarium, USA).
GLOSSARIES:
Botanical Glossaries. This document gives access to glossaries of botanical terms on the internet. The Flora Australia glossary is provided by the Flora Section of the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS). The Flora of New South Wales glossary is provided by the National Herbarium of New South Wales (Herbarium NSW).
NAMES:
Garden Gate: Roots of Botanical Names.
Index to Historical Collections in US. This index lists in alphabetical order over 1600 of the principal collections in the U.S. National Herbarium. The list was actively compiled up until January 1, 1950 and updated again in October 1965.
Aquatic Plant Database by the Center for Aquatic Plants, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, USA. Aquatic Plant Information Retrieval System (APIRS) maintains a computerized citation database devoted to freshwater aquatic (which includes "wetland") plants. The database includes more than 40,000 research articles, books, and reports about aquatic plant ecology, physiology, utilization and control. Items in many languages dating back to the 18th century are in this inclusive database.
Association of Systematics Collections (gopher at Cornell, USA), Draft Information Model for Biological Collections.
Bright Edges of the World: The Earth's Drylands, an electronic exhibit (a collaboration of the Smithsonian Institution and the United Nations Environment Programme) about the world's drylands.
Carnivorous Plant Database. This database is built on information from Jan Schlauer's World carnivorous Plant List;contributions from the members of the Carnivorous Plants Listserver Mailing List and the International Carnivorous Plant Society and other regional CP societies.This database includes over 3000 entries giving an exhaustive nomenclatural synopsis of all carnivorous plants.
DRYADE, a database on ornamental trees (in Dutch), by Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands.
Grass (Poaceae, Gramineae) Research at the Smithsonian Institution, USA. This site includes a Catalogue of New World Grasses database. The Catalogue includes nomenclature and taxonomy, including literature references, types, and geographic distribution for some 24,000 names. The site also contains an annotated catalogue of the C. B. Trinius Gramineae Herbarium (LE) in St. Petersburg (Russia), and a link to plant taxonomic databases at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Gray Herbarium Index of New World Plants from the Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.The Gray Herbarium Index Database currently includes 287,225 records of New World vascular plant taxa at the level of species and below. The Index includes from its 1886 starting point, the names of plant genera, species, and all taxa of infraspecific rank. The Gray Index has in common with Index Kewensis its involvement with taxon names, although they differ in biological and geographical coverage. The Gray Index covers vascular plants of the Americas, Index Kewensis includes seed plants world-wide. Only the Gray Index has nomenclatural synonyms cross-referenced to basionyms. The information is now accessible over the Internet via keyword searches from the E-mail Data Server and through the Biodiversity and Biological Collections Gopher.
Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, USA) maintains checklists of Argentinian Poaceae, Flora of China, Flora Mesoamericana, Flora of Missouri, spermatophyte families of Venezuelan Guayana, manual of the plants of Costa Rica, Peru checklist and West central Africa Vascular Plants Dataset.
Seagrass at University of Hawaii, Department of Botany, USA.
Selected research projects of the New York Botanical Garden by Location.
SEPASAL. Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-arid Landsis a major economic botany database on useful plants of drylands, developed and maintained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The database is used to provide development organisations and individual research workers with information on useful plants and to target species for germplasm collection and storage.
Tropical Forests Digital Map Database, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK. Since 1989 WCMC has been involved in the production of The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests, in collaboration with IUCN. The first two volumes, Asia and the Pacific and Africa, have been published and the last volume, The Americas, is in press. Each volume contains national maps of tropical moist forests, the digital copies of which are maintained in WCMC's Biodiversity Map Library (BML).
Tropical Forest Resource Group, UK. The Tropical Forest Resource Group is a consortium of organisations from southern Britain that together form a powerful resource for the provision of information and expertise to project and policy developers in the area of forest management and conservation, agroforestry and related land use.

Global

GRIN Taxonomy Home Page. Taxonomical databases (economic plants, family and generic names, nomenclature of the PEAS database, nomenclature of Seed Associations, noxious weeds, rare and endangered plants) of the Germplasm Resources Information Network of USDA's National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS).
ILDIS, International Legume Database & Information Service, UK. ILDIS is dedicated to the study of the plant family Leguminosae, which contains just under a twelfth of the world's flowering plants. Many species are of economic importance. ILDIS is developing a worldwide database of all legume species. The BIDS LegumeLine Service provides end-user access to taxonomic, distribution, and other data in the ILDIS Phase 1 Database v 2.02.0.
Index Nominum Genericorum (ING). The Index Nominum Genericorum (ING), a collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution, was initiated in 1954 as a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. The ING database covers validly published generic names of plants (including fungi). The original intent of the index was to bring generic names in all plant groups together in a single list to reveal cases of homonymy. In addition, ING includes bibliographic citations and information about the typification and nomenclatural status of generic names.
Indices Nominum Supragenericorum by University of Maryland at College Park, Department of Plant Biology, USA. Indices Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium is made available publicly via the Internet. The project is a joint effort between the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Norton-Brown Herbarium at the University of Maryland. Its purpose is to capture all valid and legitimate extant vascular plants names proposed above the rank of genus. These data are dynamic and constantly being updated.
Interagency Taxonomic Information System, USA. The Interagency Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is the result of a US federal effort to provide a database of scientifically credible taxonomic information. The ITIS will include documented taxonomic information of flora and fauna from both aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Geographic coverage will be worldwide with emphasis on North American taxa.
IOPI Database of Plant Databases (DPD), from Australia. The Database of Plant Databases (DPD for short) is a global list of plant databases, to tell you who is putting together what data and where. The DPD contains virtually no plant data as such, but serves to put you in contact with the projects that do. Most, but not all, entries concern databases about higher plants.
IOPI Global Plant Checklist Project, from Australia.
IOPI Species Plantarum Project (SPP), from Australia.
Names in Current Use (NCU), gopher in Australia. The computerized version of the draft lists of generic Names in Current Use (NCU) is a series of ASCII text files, each ca. 100-200 kbytes in size.
Plant Species Database of the WCMC, The World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UK): nomenclatural, distribution and conservation status information on 82,500 species, subspecies and varieties of vascular plants worldwide (over 1/4 of the described higher plants). This taxon-based information is linked to 145,000 distribution records and 17,000 data source records.
Species 2000 Home Page, UK. The Species 2000 project is developing an indexing system for all groups of organisms, with an ultimate goal of listing all known species on Earth. From this simple Home Page you will be able to access Global Master Species Databases.
TROPICOS via Remote Managing Gigabytes. This is an experimental interface to the TROPICOS database of the Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, USA), which is indexed and searched via the Managing Gigabytes software, with a WWW/Mosaic interface by Jeff Kirk. The database is also available via gopher, and TROPICOS II is the latest interface to the database.
World Species List from Envirolink (USA).

Africa

Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Lobe-Okanda Reserve, Gabon, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA. The list includes 1030 species (September, 1995) but that number will grow as the number of as-yet-undetermined specimens shrinks and as further collecting continues. Updates will be made periodically (at few-monthly intervals) and will eventually include the incorporation of images of those species for which good photographs were made.
Conspectus of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar. The Conspectus of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar Project is an international, multi-institutional effort involving the Missouri Botanical Garden (MO, St. Louis, USA), the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P, Paris, France), the Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (TAN), and the Centre National de la Recherche Applique au Developpement Rural (TEF), whose goal is to make widely accessible information on all vascular plants occurring in Madagascar.
Malagasy/Indo-Australo-Malesian phytogeographic connections by George E. Schatz. This article is part of the Conspectus of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar, available via the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA.
The West Central Africa Vascular Plant Dataset (gopher at Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA).

Asia

Biodiversity of the Kuril Archipelago. The International Kuril Island Project (IKIP) is an international collaboration of American, Russian, and Japanese scientists to survey the plants, insects, spiders, freshwater and terrestrial mollusks, freshwater fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals of the Kuril Archipelago. Participating institutions include the University of Washington (Fish Collection, Burke Museum, and Herbarium), the Russian Academy of Sciences, Far East Branch, and Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan. - List of the the Families and Species of Vascular Plants of the Kuril Islands.
Brunei Checklist Project, from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK.
Flora Of China from the Harvard University Herbarium. Information on the collaborative project to publish the first modern English-language account of the approximately 30,000 species of vascular plants of China. The web pages contain introductory information, manuscripts, images, links to searchable data, and information about editorial centers. - Flora of China Checklist (gopher) /// Flora of China Checklist, WWW version, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA.
The Flora and Fauna of Korea, overview by The Korean Overseas Information Office.
Flora Malesiana, Leiden, Rijksherbarium, the Netherlands. Flora Malesiana aims at a critical, semi-monographic treatise of the c. 41,500 species of flowering plants and ferns from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and Brunei.
Flora of Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia by University of Florida Herbarium, USA. Taxonomic databases accessible by international networks are being developed for all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu in the Malaysian state of Sabah in northern Borneo. The specimen database now includes more than 20,000 specimens that have been examined. Kinabalu has been said to have the richest flora in the world.
Indonesia Rain Forest.
Tropical Evergreen Forests of Malaysia.

Australia

Australian Biodiversity at the Species Level - Flora, ERIN, Australia.
Australian Flora and Vegetation Statistics from the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
Australian Flora, overview from the WWW Server of the Australian Embassy in Washington DC, USA.
Australian Plant Name Index (ERIN), APNI searchable gopher index.
Australian Tropical Rain Forests Home Page and Keys to Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants by School of Botany, La Trobe University, Australia.
Common names of Australian plants, from the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
Flora of Australia, by Australian Biological Resources Study.
Norfolk Island Species List (Australia). A checklist of the native, endemic and introduced plants of the island. Prepared by Peter Green for the Flora of Australia, Vol.49, AGPS (1994).
Papua New Guinea Rain Forest Information by Ecological Enterprises' Forest Networking Project (gopher, USA).
Plant Systematics Research in Australasia. A database project gathering together information on the current taxonomic research of Australasian plants. Edited by Christopher Puttock and K.J. Cowley.
Pooidae (Poaceae) in Australia by C.M. Weiller, M.J. Henwood, J. Lenz and L. Watson (from Cornell, USA). These descriptions encompass the six tribes, 59 genera and 303 taxa of specific and subspecific rank of the subfamily Pooideae currently recognised in Australia. The database from which the descriptions have been generated is under development, and part of the genus Bromus (tribe Bromeae) and several species from tribe Aveneae are still to be incorporated. Some of the images referred to in the descriptions are not yet available.
The Western Australian Seagrass Web Site Home Page, maintained by Mike Keulen.

Europe

Atlas Florae Europaeae, Distribution of Vascular Plants in Europe - overview of the projcet from the Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Atlas of the Distribution of Vascular Plants in Finland. A computerized database floristic atlas of 1,600 Finnish vascular plants; overview in Finnish and sample images; from Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Atlas van de Flora van Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Beyond the French Riviera: Flora, introduction to the plants of Riviera, France.
The BIDS Ecoflora Service. BIDS ECOFLORA provides end-user access to ecological data in the Ecological Flora Database. The Ecological Flora of the British Isles (ECOFLORA) database contains data on 131 ecological characteristics for 1777 species of the British flora, together with information on the habitat types, British and European distribution, fungal diseases and mycorrhizal associations.
British Trees, UK.
Check-list of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - 1994, by C.N. French and R.J. Murphy, University of Exeter, UK. In conjunction with the Botanical Society of the British Isles, the Cornish Biological Records Unit has been actively surveying the vascular plants of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly with the intention of producing an Atlas of the Cornish Flora. This Check-list represents one of the important stages in this process and gives an indication of the progress made so far.
Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Finland (front page and four html files), from Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Flora and Fauna of Norway, Leif Ryvarden's (Institute of Biology, Botanical Division, University of Oslo) article for ODIN (Official Documentation and Information from Norway).
Flora e fauna dell'isola di Capri, Italy.
The Flora of Croatia Check List.
Flora of the San Quirico, Michael Kleih. Monte San Quirico is a hill of 410 m hight at the eastern coast of Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy.
METASPEC, ECNC Metadatabase on European species. Metadatabase on European species data, providing addresses and contacts for local, national and international databases on European species - from the European Centre for Nature Conservation, the Netherlands.
SAXIFRAGA - European Flora Slides. from the European Centre for Nature Conservation, the Netherlands. The ECNC has reached an agreement with the Saxifraga Foundation, whose 5000 slide archive covers 1673 plant species ranging from Abies alba to Zelkova albelica, with special emphasis on Mediterranean and Alpine species. Through the ECNC head office, network institutes can get copies of slides free of charge.
A Species Directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and its surrounding seas. Editors: B.E. Picton, C.M. Howson, B.J. Ball and M. Bowler, The Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK and The Marine Conservation Society.
Swiss Flowering Plants basic information about flowering plants of Switzerland and Europe and addidional files of (botanical) interest. The data are actually in FileMaker Pro 2.x for Macintosh format. Includes information on nomenclature and synonyms, ecological indicator values (Landolt), threatened or endangered status, a vegetation distribution database (Welten-Sutter), a list of about 1000 species of useful, woody or poisonous plants and their utilization, and more.

N America

A List of the Bryophytes of Kentucky, with County Distributions. Flora Online issue no. 15, 1988, by A. Snider, S. M. Studlar & M. Medley (from gopher at Cornell, USA).
Arkansas Biodiversity - the Vascular Flora. An experimental informatics system under development as a collaborative enterprise among faculty and students of the University of Arkansas Herbarium, the Biota of North America Program and the Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group. This project is based on information taken from An Atlas and Annotated List of the Vascular Plants of Arkansas, a product of Dr. Edwin B. Smith and the University of Arkansas Herbarium.
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants from the University of South Florida Herbarium, Tampa, FL, USA. Online maps showing the occurrence of over 4,000 species indicated by shading of counties on the maps.
Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Utah, USA. A a digital version of the Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Utah authored by Beverly J. Albee, Leila M. Shultz, and Sherel Goodrich, published by the Utah Museum of Natural History, 1988. This document consists of maps of the state of Utah showing collection locations for 2,438 documented plant species. The authors critically examined approximately 400,000 specimens during a seven year time span to create this atlas.
Baja California Islands Flora & Vertebrate Fauna Bibliography by Mary Campana, USA.
The Biota of North America Program (BONAP), from Berkely, California, USA. The Biota of North America Program (BONAP) of the North Carolina Botanical Garden at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill maintains a historical tradition of working closely with private organizations and federal government agencies in providing assistance with biogeography, taxonomy, and nomenclature for the North American biota. Through publications and digital data, BONAP offers information on a variety of biological fields including rarity, weediness, nativity, insectivory, plant habit, habitat, duration, biogeography, hardiness, medical value, horticultural values, etc. Currently, several thousand fields are being maintained in a relational database at BONAP, making it one of the largest biological data systems now available. Recently the the geographic scope of BONAP has been expanded to include the entire northern world (north of the 24th parallel) and presently track nearly 80,000 accepted taxa. - BONAP's publication, the second edition of a two-volume work, A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States , Canada and Greenland, which appeared in 1994, represents the most recent and most comprehensive compilation of the taxonomy of the North American vascular flora (north of Mexico).
Biota of North America Program, page from Texas, USA. The Biota of North America Program (BONAP) of the North Carolina Botanical Garden , the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill develops and maintains primary electronic data relating to vascular plants of North America.
California Flora Database (USA, looong text file via ftp). This database contains geographic and ecological distribution information for 6717 California vascular plant taxa, as well as additional habitat information for rare taxa and species of the Sierra Nevada. Also accessible through WWW: California Flora Database
Catalina's Endemic Plants. Catalina is an island off Los Angeles, California, USA. Descriptions by The Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Gardens.
A Digital Voyage to Carolina, essays on the natural history of the Carolinas, USA.
Field Guide: Dominant Flora of the Ground Cover in the Apalachicola National Forest, Florida, USA.
The Flora of Florida Project, University of South Florida Herbarium, Tampa, FL, USA.
Flora of Missouri Checklist (gopher at Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA).
Flora of North America, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA.
The Flora of Texas Consortium, USA, is a collaborative effort.to develop the Flora of Texas Project.
Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Virginia, USA, by Kenneth J. Stein and F. William Ravlin. This guide is intended to assist homeowners in the easy identification of trees and shrubs found throughout Virginia. It also provides characteristic information about the tree or shrub as well as information about the habitat.
Heritage of the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA. On ther natural history section there is information on the flora and vegetation of this area.
Muskoka Flora - An Annotated Checklist of Vascular Plants in Muskoka District, Ontario, Canada from the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Native Plants of South Florida, by Doug Scofield, USA. This collection of pages provides information and pictures of many plants native to South Florida to encourage appreciation and enjoyment of the flora. There are also tools to aid field identification and botanical research topics.
Native Wildflowers of the North Dakota Grasslands, from the Northern Prairie Science Center, USA. Northern Prairie biologist, Harold A. Kantrud, has written a series of articles about native wildflowers of the North Dakota grasslands. The articles appear weekly in local newspapers and are published during the week each species is expected to bloom. The articles appeal to a wide audience of professionals and nature enthusiasts. Each article is three to four paragraphs in length and usually consists of the life history of the species, its identifying traits, where in North Dakota one can expect to find it, and its nomenclatural history. When available, a picture of each species is included.
The Navasota Flora by Texas A&M University, USA.
Oregon Register of Big Trees, USA. The state and national champion trees located in the state of Oregon. These trees have met the criteria for the National Register of Big Trees, established by American Forests, a nonprofit organization that administers the National Register of Big Trees.
PLANTS Database of the National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA - checklist of the vascular and nonvascular plants of the North America.
Scientific and common names of 7,000 vascular plants in the United States by Brako, L, Rossman, A.Y. & Farr, D.F. 1995 (telnet access; login by giving "user" as login name and password).
State of the Environment Report for Manitoba 1991: Manitoba Plants and Animals, Canada. This section lists scientific names and common names (if any) of all higher plants and animals in the province.
Texas Flora Checklist, S. M. Tracy Herbarium and Keck Center for Genome Informatics, USA.
Treebeard's Flora, Woody Plants of the Central Santa Ynez Mountains by Marc Kummel, California, USA. This is an experimental Web-based flora for the mountains behind Santa Barbara, California. This flora will cover the trees, shrubs, and woody perennials in the central part of the Santa Ynez Mountains, the area bounded by Gibraltar Road, Gaviota Pass, the beach, and the Santa Ynez River.
U.S. National Fungus Collections from the Smithsonian Institution gopher, USA.
Utah Geography: Vegetation, from the Department of Geography and Earth Resources at Utah State University, USA. The vegetation map was made with the National Biological Survey (NBS) GAP Analysis program. The purpose of this program is to identify areas of high biological diversity over large landscapes.
Vertebrates and Vascular Plants in National Parks, U.S. National Park Service (NPS), USA.
Vascular Plants (and more) of the Baker Wetlands, Kansas, USA.
Vascular Flora of the Vassar College Farm by Troy Weldy, Dept. of Biology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. The Plant of the Week. Vote weekly for the Plant of the Week (for plants which are found on the Vassar Farm, NY, USA). Each week, winner is showcase with a description of its taxonomy, phytogeography, ethnobotanical interest, economic value, and various tidbits.
The Vegetation of Lobo Point and North Wild Horse Mesa, Eastern Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California, USA by Tom Schweich.
Western Botanical Database Federation, USA. Representatives from various institutions in the western United States that house botanical collections have agreed to work collaboratively in the development of a federation of botanical databases for the management of and research upon botanical collections housed and maintained at participating institutions. The institutions are the University of California, Berkeley, the University of New Mexico, Oregon State University, the University of Washington, the California Academy of Sciences, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, the Bishop Museum, and the Nevada State Museum, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, New Mexico State University, Northern Arizona University, the Museum of Northern Arizona, and San Juan College.
Wetland Delineation Form Editor by Michael Lefsky, University of Virginia, USA
Wildflowers of the Southern Appalachians, Birdsong Enterprises, USA.

Latin America

Andean Botanical Information System, from UC Jepson Herbarium, Berkeley, California, USA. - ABIS (Andean Botanical Information System) represents Field Museum's efforts to provide collection information from the floristic and systematic investigations of the phanerogams of Andean South America. ABIS is developing a networked database of specimen-label data for selected groups of Andean plants, including the flora of coastal Peru and Chile, floristic inventories of montane forests of northern Peru, and monographic treatments providing searchable text and online images.
Arboreal Species of the Atlantic Rain Forest, Brazil.
Biodiversity in Costa Rica, INBio's (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad) WWW server.
A Checklist of the Fortuna Watershed, Chiriqui, Panama. Compiled by Gordon D. McPherson, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA. This checklist of the flora of the Fortuna dam watershed (western Panama, c. 8 45' N, 82 15' W, elev. 1050-1950 m.) documents the occurence of c. 1300 species of vascular plants there. More species names will be added as identifications of as-yet-unstudied specimens are made.
Checklists of the Plants of the Guianas (Smithsonian Institution, USA; gopher), Checklist of the Lichenized Fungi of the Guianas
Checklist of the Family Poaceae in Argentina (Missouri Botanical Garden Gopher, St. Louis, USA).
Cycadaceas de México, from University of California Riverside, USA.
Flora del Paraguay (from Geneva, Switzerland; in Spanish).
Flora Mesoamericana. The first major regional flora ever written in Spanish, Flora Mesoamericana is a collaborative effort of the Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, USA), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Natural History Museum in London, UK. The Flora describes, for the first time, all the vascular plants growing in the southernmost states of Mexico (including the Yucatan Peninsula) and all the Central American republics. UNAM published the first volume of Flora Mesoamericana earlier this year. In all, seven volumes will be published between 1994 and 2001.
Flora of Peru (gopher) (Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA).
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, from the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA.
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana - Spermatophyte Families (Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA).
Gallery Forest, Mata Ciliar, Brazil.
Gazetteer of Costa Rican Plant Collecting Locales by Mike Grayum, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA.
List of Fungi Reported from Brazil. Searchable list from the BDT, Brazil.
Los Arboles del Gran Petén. Un proyecto de vídeo flora de los árboles de la Región del Gran Petén de Belice, Guatemala y México por: A. Gómez-Pompa (Universidad de California, Riverside), O.E. Plummer (Universidad de California, Riverside), N. Ogata (Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Veracruz), S. Olivieri (Conservación Internacional, Washington, D.C.).
Manual of the Plants of Costa Rica (gopher search at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA) /// Manual de la Flora de Costa Rica from INBio - a list of all the identified specimens held at INBio's Herbarium (INB), taxonomically sorted. /// Manual de las Plantas de Costa Rica, mirror maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA.
Peru Checklist - Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA. The entire catalogue is available for downloading via ftp, or users may access the checklist via gopher.
Plantas do Nordeste, from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK. Plantas do Nordeste is a multidisciplinary programme, concerned with the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use and development of plant resources in Northeast Brazil. It combines basic with applied research, and disseminates vital information on plants and ecosystems of the region to those who can apply it to improve people's lives.
Rainforest Action Network. Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
The Tropical Rain Forest in Surinam, presentation by Marco Bleeker, the Netherlands (with excellent images).
Vídeo Flora de Veracruz, Mexico (from University of California, Riverside, USA).

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