Directory of Plantae Resources

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Members of the kingdom Plantae are characterized by containing the green pigment chlorophyll which enables them to use light as their main source of energy. They include liverworts, hornworts, mosses, clubmosses, quillworts, horsetails, ferns, cycads, gingkos, conifers and the host of flowering plants and grasses that surround us. Green algae are also now usually considered to be plants but will be found in this directory under the category Protista.
Potential contents include descriptions and images of the organisms, classification, anatomy, physiology, distribution, reproduction and life cycle, habitat, biological or ecological aspects of management and endangered-species status.

Subcategories

• Bryophyte
• Coniferophyta
• Cycadophyta
• Equisetophyta
• Fossil Plant Groups
• Ginkgophyta
• Gnetophyta
• Lycopodiophyta
• Magnoliophyta
• Polypodiophyta
• Psilotophyta
• Pteridophyta

Resources in This Category

• Albion College Vascular Plant Image Gallery

  http://www.albion.edu/plants/
  Taxonomically arranged images and summaries of family characteristics.

• Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants

  http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/
  A searchable database compiled by the Institute of Systematic Botany at the University of South Florida with maps, citations, and images and species lists for each county.

• Australian Native Plants

  http://www.oznativeplants.com/
  Photographs of Australian plants with fact sheets, distribution maps and conservation notes

• Australian Plant Name Index

  http://www.cpbr.gov.au/apni/
  Searchable database from the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research.

• Botanical Word Meanings and Name Derivations

  http://www.calflora.net/
  References on California plant names, meanings and derivations from Latin and Greek roots, with biographical information on western botanists and collectors.

• Botany.cz

  http://botany.cz/en
  Provides a virtual herbarium with photographs and descriptions of a range of species, a catalogue of localities and information on endangered and protected plants in the Czech Republic.

• CalFlora Database

  http://www.calflora.org/
  Searchable database all 8375 currently recognized vascular plants in California, including 20000 photographs.

• Caudiciforms

  http://www.bihrmann.com/caudiciforms
  Information and photos of many species of caudiciforms - plants with thickened bases.

• Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium

  http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/
  Information about the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian plants, access to databases on living plants, herbarium specimens and photographs.

• Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

  http://www.winternet.com/~chuckg/dictionary.html
  Glossary of Latin terms used in species names, from abbreviatulus to yunnanensis.

• Discover Life - Plantae

  http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Plantae
  Checklists, images, maps, and identification guides.

• E-Flora BC

  http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/eflora/
  Electronic atlas project for the plants of British Columbia, covering life forms from vascular plants to algae, and topics from identification to scientific collections.

• eFloras

  http://www.efloras.org/
  Collection of online floras, including the Flora of China, Flora of North America, Flora of Missouri, Flora of Pakistan, and Trees and Shrubs of the Andes of Ecuador.

• Flora brasiliensis

  http://florabrasiliensis.cria.org.br/
  Online version of the series of books produced between 1840 and 1906 by editors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler and Ignatz Urban with the participation of 65 specialists. [English and Portuguese versions].

• Flora Danica Online

  http://www.kb.dk/en/tema/floradanica/
  One of the world’s great botanical works, this was started in 1752 but not completed until 1883. The 3,240 engravings in folio of all the wild plants of Denmark are now available online.

• Flora Nordica

  http://home.swipnet.se/~w-58871/flora/flora.html
  A search for Swedish and Latin botanical names, classified by family.

• Flora of Hokkaido, Japan

  http://www.hinoma.com/maps/
  Distribution maps and a check list of vascular plants found growing in Hokkaido.

• Flora of Northern Ireland

  http://www.habitas.org.uk/flora/
  A plant database with photographs, information on rare plants and their habitats, searchable by habitat, species, plant family and common names.

• FloraBase - The Western Australia Flora

  http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/
  Authoritative scientific information on 12,000 taxa in Western Australia, including maps, images, descriptions, specimen, and nomenclatural information. Requires registration.

• FloraGREIF: Virtual Flora of Mongolia

  http://greif.uni-greifswald.de/floragreif/
  Open source project aiming to provide an information source for botanists, plant ecologists and students of botany or ecology working in applied projects.

• Flowers in Israel

  http://www.flowersinisrael.com/
  Photo galleries of Israeli wildflowers and native plants.

• Forestry Images - Plants

  http://www.forestryimages.org/plants.cfm
  Small collection of plant imagery, from University of Georgia.

• Greek Mountain Flora

  http://www.greekmountainflora.info/
  A plant database with photographs of the mountain flora of Greece.

• Hawaiian Native Plant Genera

  http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/natives.htm
  Images of hundreds of species of ferns, fern allies, and flowering plants, arranged by genus.

• herbaria@home

  http://herbariaunited.org/atHome/
  Web-based volunteer project to digitize and catalog museum and university herbarium collections held in the UK.

• Hong Kong Flora and Vegetation

  http://www.hkflora.com/
  Discusses plant diversity and adaptations and how plants improve the air and water quality, prevent soil erosion and water runoff, and provide food and shelter for the local fauna. Includes information on plant study sites and trails chosen by the Quality Education Fund and a checlist of plant species.

• Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas

  http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/bio/gdiggs/EastTX/ETinfo.htm
  Information including keys, descriptions and illustrations of species available in Adobe pdf format by Shinners and Mahler.

• Illustrated Guide to Arizona Weeds

  http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/weeds/titlweed.htm
  Online version of the book by Kittie F. Parker.

• Index Nominum Genericorum

  http://botany.si.edu/ing/
  A collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Smithsonian Institution, providing a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

• International Plant Names Index

  http://www.ipni.org/
  Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.

• Introduction to the Green Kingdom

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/plantae.html
  Brief introduction to the plant kingdom with links to further information.

• Inventory of the Plants of Pakistan

  http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/pakistan/
  Information about the project to publish a complete Flora of Pakistan.

• Jordan Flora

  http://www.jordanflora.com/
  Images of native plants in Jordan with no explanatory text.

• Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature

  http://kbd.kew.org/kbd/
  Database of references to publications on the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns.

• Kingdom: Plantae

  http://www.kingdomplantae.net/
  A growing directory of the hierarchy from Kingdom down to species. Includes descriptive pages on selected species.

• Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera

  http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/ncu/genera/NCUGQuery.htm
  International Association for Plant Taxonomy searchable database.

• Pacific Northwest Plants

  http://pnwplants.wsu.edu/
  Provides a database for plant identification, culture and usage for the Northwest, including native and introduced species and their major varieties and cultivars.

• Photo Herbarium

  http://www.vaernes.net/einar/fotoherbarium/main_e.htm
  Einar Vaernes has produced a photograph gallery of Norwegian plants that he has photographed near Trondheim.

• Plant Resources Center of the University of Texas at Austin

  http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/
  Herbarium holding the world's largest collection of Texas plant specimens. Site offers history, and information about staff and facility use.

• Plants for a Future

  http://www.pfaf.org/
  Information about a wide range of edible or otherwise useful plants, sorted by names and potential uses. Includes a searchable database.

• PLANTS National Database

  http://www.plants.usda.gov/
  Online USDA database of information, images, and links on plants in the USA, including crops and invasives. Search by name, geographic distribution, or other characteristics.

• The Bulgarian Flora Online

  http://www.bgflora.net/index_en.html
  Provides a brief description and photographs of each species found in the country.

• The Oldest Land Plants

  http://steurh.home.xs4all.nl/eng/old1.html
  Introduction to the first land plants, known from fossils.

• Tropicos

  http://www.tropicos.org/
  Publicly accessible botanical database organizing millions of plant specimens, images, and bibliographic references, from the Bioinformatics Department at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

• University of Manchester: British Flowering Plants

  http://emu.man.ac.uk/mmcustom/BotQuery.php
  Searchable, illustrated collection.

• Vascular Plants of North Central Florida

  http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herbarium/locfl/
  Checklist of plants, subdivided by form, with common names.

• West African Plants

  http://www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de/
  A photo guide and identification tool for vascular plants of West Africa with an easy to use multi-entry key of 18 characters.

• Wisconsin Vascular Plant Species

  http://www.botany.wisc.edu/wisflora/
  A checklist of naturally occurring vascular plants in Wisconsin with photographs, distribution maps and habitat descriptions.

• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

  http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
  Enter a family, genus, or genus and species to see accepted names and world distribution of plants in 150 families. Maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Surrey, UK.

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