Internet Directory for Botany - Vascular Plant Families

FAMILY DESCRIPTIONS

• Angiosperm Families, Texas A&M University Department of Biology Herbarium, USA. Following Arthur Cronquist 1988. The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants. - DELTA format descriptions, lots of images.
• CSUBIOWEB Fruit Key. Created by Steven J. Wolf, California State University, Stanislaus, USA.
• The Families of Flowering Plants: Descriptions and Illustrations, Watson, L. & Dallwitz, M.J. (1995 onwards); from Cornell, USA.
• Field Systematic Botany (Botany 620), Department of Biology, Texas A&M University.

PTERIDOPHYTES

• The Azolla Page, from the Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University, Centre for Environmental Biology (CEB), Portugal. This site is an international forum of discussion and diffusion on Azolla.
• Ceratopteris - A Simple Model Plant System, USA.
• Ferns and Man in New Guinea, from Australia. Text by J.R. Croft (a paper presented to Papua New Guinea Botany Society, 1982).
• Isoëtes Megaspore Page by R. Joel Duff, Department of Botany, University of Tennessee, USA.

GYMNOSPERMS

• The Ancient Bristlecone Pine. Facts about the more than 4,700-year-old pine in White-Inyo mountain range of California, USA
• Coastal Redwood Trees Essays. The essays are transcripts of talks given in Humboldt County in 1965 by professors of the U.C. Berkeley School of Forestry. They were duplicated on mimeographed paper, and filed in the U.C. Berkeley Forestry Library. In the interest of preserving them, they were OCRed, and converted into WWW documents.
• Gingko biloba - Maiden Hair Tree by Jeff Blackadar, USA.
• A Key to Gingkos Survival by N. Snigirevskaya, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The article is from IOP Newsletter 52, and is available via the server of the International Organization of Paleobotany, UK.
• Trees of the Pacific Northwest. Tree identification Home Page at Oregon State University. The purpose of this site is to help you identify common conifers in the Pacific Northwest.Information about the conifers of Oregon, USA, including a dichotomous key for their identification.
• Utilization of Pinus patula: an annotated bibliography, from Oxfod, UK; bibliogarphy compiled by J.A. Wright 1994.
• The Wollemi Pine - A Living Fossil, ERIN, Australia.

ANGIOSPERMS

• Arecaceae (Palmae)
  • Growing Hardy Palms (Arecaceae / Palmae; Leonard Holmes, USA). Information on species of palms which are easily grown in temperate areas. Includes cultural information, tips for winter protection, sources for plants, links to other sites.
  • The North American and Caribbean Palms, Arecaceae (Palmae) by Robert B. Hole, Jr., USA.
  • Palms of the World. This site, maintained by Mike Maxson in USA, was designed to expose people to the many different palms (Arecaceae/Palmae) located throughout the world and provide links to other palm information on the www.
• Asclepiadaceae
  • The Asclepiad Page by Richard Hodgkiss, UK.
• Betulaceae
  • A Bibliography of the Genus Betula by Dr. Mark D. Atkinson, School of Applied Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
• Boraginaceae
  • Boraginaceae Page, Matt Buys, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• Bromeliaceae
  • The Bromeliaceae Webpage by David Taylor, USA.
• Cactaceae
  • BONAP Cactaceae Listing, USA. Standardized nomenclature following ©John T. Kartesz. 1994. A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. The Biota of North America Program of the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
• Cannabaceae
  • The Institute for Hemp Home Page, USA. This site contains information about the NON-DRUG industrial use of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.). The Institute for Hemp is a non-profit education & research organization.
• Chenopodiaceae
  • BONAP Chenopodiaceae Listing, USA. Standardized nomenclature following ©John T. Kartesz. 1994. A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. The Biota of North America Program of the North Carolina Botanical Garden; with data from Stephan L. Hatch, Kancheepuram N. Gandhi, and Larry E. Brown. 1990. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Texas.
• Cucurbitaceae
  • The Cucurbit Network, USA. In 1994, The Cucurbit Network was created and is currently managed by cucurbit scientists, Deena Decker-Walters, Thomas Andres, and Terrence Walters. Their goals are to disseminate news of recent developments concerning cucurbits and to promote the conservation and understanding of this plant family through education and research. They aim to foster communication among cucurbit workers through the publication of our newsletter.
• Ericaceae
  • Ericaceae of Ecuador, a treatment by James L. Luteyn (New York Botanical Garden). This is the WWW version of a taxonomic treatment of the plant family Ericaceae for the series "Flora of Ecuador", published by the Department of Systematic Botany, University of Göteborg, and the Section for Botany, Rijksmuseum, Stockholm, in co-operation with Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. - From Harvard, USA.
  • The Rhododendron Page, an on-line reference to the genus Rhododendron (Ericaceae) by Robert J. McKenzie, Tyler Arboretum.
• Fagaceae
  • Fagaceae Network, L'Institut Botanique - L'Université Montpellier II, France.
• Gesneriaceae
  • African Violets from Aggie Horticulture, from Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA. Information on the genus Saintpaulia (Gesneriaceae).
  • Annotated Bibliography of the Gesneriaceae, USA. This bibliography was developed in the Department of Botany, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, to facilitate taxonomic research on the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae.
  • Gesneriads page by Wallace Wells, USA.
• Hemerocallidaceae
  • Daylilies Growing Along the Information Highway, USA.
  • The Daylily Place, USA.
  • Home Page for the Friends of the Daylilies, USA. Hemerocallis information by by Friends of the Daylilies - a group of American Hemerocallis Society members.
• Iridaceae
  • Home Page for Irises (Iridaceae) by David Pane Joyce, USA. This page includes links to information on irises across the web. Also, at this cite there is a description of the genus Iris, a bibliography, and a list of iris societies.
• Lamiaceae
  • The Mints of Texas. A collaborative project of the General Libraries and the Plant Resources Center, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
• Lythraceae
  • Lythraceae, The Loostrifes. The genera of North America, including Mexico and Central America by Shirley A. Graham, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, USA.
• Leguminosae (Fabaceae):
  • Acacias at the Australian National Botanic Gardens
  • The Bean Bag (gopher), Cornell, USA /// The Bean Bag (WWW version from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK). - Directory of readers of the Bean Bag, from RBG Kew.
  • BeanRef is a collection of references to different aspects of research on beans (Phaseolus and Vigna; Fabaceae), maintained by Mario Nenno, Devision of Cell Biology,at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
  • FAO Tropical Weeds Database: Legumes, Oxford, UK.
  • LOTUS Database, by Tatjana E. Kramina, Moscow, Russia. The database includes information on taxonomy, geographic distribution and herbarium collections of the genus Lotus L. (Leguminosae Juss.), with special attention to the section Lotus. Taxonomic information stored in the database comprises protologues, taxonomic citations, morphological descriptions, synonymy and citation of types. In LOTUS Database you can also find data on herbarium specimens from K, W, LE, KW, PR, MW, LW, LWS, MSK and other herbaria.
  • PeanutBase home page, University of Georgia, Athens, USA. PeanutBase is a peanut (Arachis hypogaea, Fabaceae) researcher's database. It has two components: the ACeDB database program, and the peanut-related information entered into that program. The project is funded by the USDA Plant Genome Database project, with Gary Kochert of the University of Georgia's Botany Department as its Principal Investigator.
• Myrtaceae
  • Eucalypt Collaborative Data Set Project from Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australia.
  • Leptospermum namadgiensis - a new species of Tea-tree, Myrtaceae. Extracted from the Newsletter of the Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, May 1993. The technical paper on this species is also available. ], Andrew Lyne ( al@anbg.gov.au ), Herbarium, Australian National Botanic Gardens
• Nepenthaceae
  • The Nepenthes Page. Andreas Wistuba's Carnivorous Plant Page, almost exclusively dedicated to Pitcher Plants (Nepenthes; Nepenthaceae).
• Orchidaceae
  • American Orchid Society Culture Sheets for the cultivation of various types of orchids.
  • An annotated check-list of the genus Paphiopedilum, Orchidaceae, by Harold Koopowitz, University of California at Irvine Arboretum, USA.
  • Canadian Orchid Congress. The purpose of the Canadian Orchid Congress is to improve the relationship among orchid societies in Canada by meetings devoted to the advancement of knowledge and appreciation of orchids in Canada.
  • Eric's Orchid Page. Eric Yamamoto's orchid page from Hawaii, USA.
  • G.I.R.O.S., Gruppo Italiano Ricerca Orchidee Spontanee (Italian Group for the Research on Wild Orchids) - from Pisa, Italy.
  • Native Michigan Orchids, images by Nicholas Plummer, USA.
  • The Orchid House. This WWW site is aimed at providing information for the orchid hobbiest. It is maintained by Jerry Bolce, jerry@dcs1.uwaterloo.ca, Canada.
  • Electronic Orchid Greenhouse by Charles Marsh, USA.
  • Native Orchids of Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Newsletter of the Ann Arbor Orchid Society, Michigan, USA.
  • Orchids of California, USA
  • The Orchid Conservatory, USA.
  • Orchids of Mt. Kinabalu, Malaysia. Maintained in the Herbarium of the University of Florida, USA. Taxonomic treatment and generic descriptions are the work of J. J. Wood, and are published in hard-copy by Wood, Beaman & Beaman, 1993, Flora of Mount Kinabalu, Volume 2: Orchids. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
  • Orchidaceae in Italy and Orchids of Italy. The latter link leads a collection of orchid pictures by B. Barsella (Department of Physics - University of Pisa, Italy).
  • OrchidMania. OrchidMania is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization which provides financial support to grassroots AIDS relief and prevention programs around the world.
  • Orchid Research Newsletters from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK.
  • Orchids of Thailand, from USA.
  • Orchids of Wisconsin. An interactive key created by Jeff Hapemann, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA.
  • Orchid Picture Gallery (Windowsill Orchids) by Nicholas Plummer, USA.
  • The Orchid Weblopedia from University of California, Irvine, USA.
  • Orchid WWW Sites by Steve Saunders.
  • Paphiopedilum Grower's Manual by Lance A. Birk.
  • A Photoalbum of Costa Rican Orchids from the Lankester Botanical Garden.
  • Societe francaise d'orchidophilie (French Orchid Society) has a lot of information on French and other European orchids, including a list of all European taxa, with keys, images and distribution maps.
  • An article on Spiranthes cernua odorata by Barry Glick, Sunshine Farms & Gardens, West Virginia, USA.
  • Tasmanian Orchid Society, Australia
• Papaveraceae
  • The Genus Eschscholzia - California Poppies and Their Relatives by Curtis Clark, Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.
• Poaceae
  • The American Bamboo Society, USA.
  • The Australian Bamboo Network
  • Bamboo Flowers. Researchers of the University of Berne, Switzerland, ask for your help in gathering records about the flowering of bamboo species.
  • Bamboo Web, from Hawaii, USA.
  • Bamboo Bibliographie of Jean Dupin, UK.
  • Checklist of the Family Poaceae in Argentina, Missouri Botanical Garden gopher, St. Louis, USA.
  • 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.
  • Pooidae (Poaceae) in Australia by C.M. Weiller, M.J. Henwood, J. Lenz and L. Watson. 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. Descriptions were generated from a DELTA database by CONFOR. - From Cornell, USA.
  • Stipeae by Mary E. Barkworth. The Stipeae is a tribe of grasses. This page will (eventually) include the following topics: characteristics, size and distribution, ecological synopsis, genera included; areas of disagreement, publications, people working on the tribe. Individual genera and species will, eventually, have their own pages.
• Rafflesiaceae
  • Rafflesia On-Line from the Department of Botany, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
• Ranunculaceae
  • Helleborus Breeding Program of the Sunshine Farms & Gardens, West Virginia, USA; with images.
• Rhamnaceae
  • Cliff Schmidt's Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae) Descriptions Home Page, Oregon State University, USA.
• Rubiaceae
  • Direct Source Home Page. Information on Cat's Claw (Uncaria tomentosa), a herb found in the upper Rain Forest in Peru.
  • Rubiaceae page by Chris Puttock, Australia. Database on Rubiaceae species, information on flora projects, Rubiaceae listserver and newsletter.
• Rutaceae
  • Herbarium in Multimedia. Prof. Dr. Tomoya Akihama (Faculty of Agriculture, Meiji University, Japan) and Multi-media Business Department of Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. presents herbarium of Citrus fruits.
• Salicaceae
  • Poplars and Willows on the World Wide Web. Home of Populus and Salix (Salicaceae) information, maintained by Carl G. Riches, University of Washington, College of Forest Resources, Seattle, USA.
  • Systematic breeding of Salix, from the Uppsala Genetic Center, Sweden.
• Scrophulariaceae
  • Scrophulariaceae Gopher in the British Museum of Natural History, UK, includes selected information from other databases including the Linnaean Typification Project, the European Plant Information Centre, TROPICOS, the Smithsonian Type Register, the Field Museum catalogue of photographs of types and the Australian Plant Name Index.
  • Tetranema (Scrophulariaceae) in Costa Rica with two new species (from INBio, Costa Rica) - Tetranema (Scrophulariaceae) in Costa Rica with two new species (from Missouri Botanical Garden). This paper of Michael H. Grayum and Barry E. Hammel, Missouri Botanical Garden, P. O. Box 299, St. Louis, USA. In preparation for the Manual to the Plants of Costa Rica, this paper was reviewed and mailed to Phytologia on 16 Feb. 1996. It was made available at two Web sites ( INBio, MO) on March 1, 1996.
• Solanaceae:
  • Scientific information on Chile Peppers by Mike Bowers, University of California, Davis, USA.

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