Coverage of Floras?

[Nick Lander]

Jean-Marc Vanel <jmvanel at FREE.FR>, on 12/05/2000 14:01 PM, wrote:

<To prepare my presentation at the 9th International World Wide Web
>Conference - Amsterdam, May 15-19, 2000 (http://www.www9.org/) , I would
>like to have the pourcentage of species among the estimated
>250 000 plant species that are on regional Floras :
>1. - on paper,
>2. - in some computerized form (HTML, etc)

I am not sure to what you are referring. Do you mean simply lists of names or
are you after useful information such as descriptions, maps, illustrations?

>The following are on the Web :
>Flora of China
>Flora of Australia
>Flora of North America (www.fna.org)

Where can one view a Flora of Australia on the Web, I wonder?

FloraBase (http://www.calm.wa.gov.au/science/florabase.html), maintained by the
 Western Australian Herbarium, includes brief descriptions, specimen lists and
maps of all 12,500 vascular plant species occuring in this state. This
represents ca half of the continent's flora and covers ca one third of its
area. For each species an information page can be retrieved on-line comprising
its scientific and common names, an indication of its status (native, alien,
priority if threatened), a description, a map and (if available) a composite
colour photograph showing habitat, habit, floral and fruit characteristics.
Form-based query tools enable one to retrieve information or identify species
on the basis of nomenclatural, geographic and/or morphological fields. There
are also facilities for users to suggest corrections (eg redeterminations) to
the various databases which underlie FloraBase.

Over the coming months FloraBase will be extended to include highly detailed
descriptions of genera and families. Over the horizon, the descriptive data
will be expanded by use of a much larger character set.

Another Australian botanical information system that may be worth your
attention is The National Herbarium of New South Wales' PlantNet site
(http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/).

The HISCOM site (http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/HISCOM/default.htm) provides a
springboard for those embarking on a virtual foray in search of the Australian
flora.

Nicholas Lander
Western Australian Herbarium (PERTH)

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From: "Jean-Marc Vanel" <jmvanel at FREE.FR>, on 12/05/2000 14:01 PM:

Hello

To prepare my presentation at the 9th International World Wide Web
Conference - Amsterdam, May 15-19, 2000 (http://www.www9.org/) , I would
like to have the pourcentage of species among the estimated
 250 000 plant species that are on regional Floras :
1. - on paper,
2. - in some computerized form (HTML, etc)

The following are on the Web :
Flora of China
Flora of Australia
Flora of North America (www.fna.org)

Thank you

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