This site is being made to speed up the general identification of dried specimens of Neotropical plants. It will be most useful to professional biologists and others doing species inventories of natural areas, ecology, and ethnobotany. It will be useful for identifying families, genera or plant species in regions for which comprehensive field guides are not available, or where manuals depend on the use of technical floral or fruit characters absent in the voucher specimens. It will even be useful to paleobotanists and others with interest in comparative morphology of tropical plants. To this end we are providing a desktop reference set of high-quality images of dried herbarium specimens for comparison. These will represent a broad range of Neotropical genera and common species. The underlying strategy is to have just a few examples of each species, specimens that are typical or illustrative of that species. Preference is given to specimens that have a good set of leaves as well as flowers or fruit, and to specimens with an authoritative identification. Specimens of juveniles will be included when available and when significantly different in appearance from adults. ... [Information of the supplier]
Useful references to help in identifying native and introduced plants and finding out about the Australian flora - This is a listing of books, and a very few journal papers, for basic botanical reference and plant identification (with some emphasis on native flora of N.S.W. and the A.C.T.). It is prepared for use by students, by the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) Visitor Information Centre, and other users. This bibliography is intended for the non-specialist, and lists fairly broad-scale works. Not all are in print, and some may be found in fairly specialist libraries only. ... [Information of the supplier]
Ausgangspunkt für die Gestaltung dieser Seite war das Script zur im Titel genannten Vorlesung. Dies bedeutete gleichzeitig, daß ebenfalls Informationen zu einer Reihe von Arzneipflanzen aufzunehmen waren. Demzufolge stellen die Seiten eine Kombination der Systematik mit einem kleinen Arzneipflanzenlexikon dar. Besonders großen Wert habe ich auf die komplette Darstellung der Systematik sowie auf die Bereitstellung von umfangreichem Bildmaterial gelegt. Dies bedeutet, daß einerseits sämtliche Pflanzenfamilien zumindest mit einer Kurzcharakteristik (Habitus, Anzahl der Gattungen und Arten, Verbreitung) vertreten sind. Durch Links zu verschiedenen Informationsquellen können diese kurzen Informationen jedoch leicht ergänzt werden. Das Bildmaterial wird sowohl durch meine eigenen Aufnahmen von Pflanzen (derzeit ca. 1.500) geliefert, insbesondere jedoch auch durch Links zu den nach meiner Ansicht besten Bilddatenquellen im Internet. Letztere Links sind durch ein Sternchen hinter dem Pflanzennamen gekennzeichnet, bei ersteren dagegen fehlt das Sternchen. ... [Information des Anbieters]
There are about 100 families of plants across the frost-belt of the continent, with at least 30 additional families occurring farther south where it never freezes. Through this article I will introduce you to seven of the largest and easiest-to-recognize families of plants, which are found worldwide. In the next hour or two you will learn the basic patterns of identification and many of the uses for more than 45,000 species of plants worldwide. Take a little bit of time to practice these patterns where ever you go - in gardens or weed patches, botanical gardens, the nursery, the florist, or the wild. When you learn to instantly recognize these and other family patterns, the world of plants will never look quite the same again. The following pages are meant to be read in order, as new ideas are introduced on each page to prepare you for the following page. ... [Information of the supplier]
PlantSystematics.org is one of the websites that are part of the core DOL implementation. DOL (DiversityofLife.org) is a web interface based on the Encino Software Project. It encompasses a set of server-side programs written in C and Perl combined with a comprehensive relational database with a comprehensive set of SQL query tools and user-management functions. The goal of DOL is to provide a "plug-and-play" management and server solution for biodiversity data, with tools for image database management and retrieval, morphological data management, diagnostic key generation, cladogram display and navigation, specimen data, descriptions, classifications and nomenclature. All images contributed to DOL websites (including www.plantsystematics.org) must be free of copyright restrictions, and/or the copyright held by the contributor. All images on the DOL websites can be used by the public for teaching or other non-profit projects and presentations that do not involve publication without further permission. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
This digital archive of unique material relating to the society's priceless collections of specimens, manuscripts and letters will enable full global access for investigation allowing researchers to rapidly check details of the specimens on-line, including morphological details and written data. The information is of critical importance to correct naming and identification of specimens. The type specimens represent the original concept of new species, exemplified by the specimens and illustrations used when assigning binomial scientific names, the foundation stones of taxonomy. The Herbarium archive contains all 14,300 Linnaean plant specimens. This first phase of the Insects archive contains the Linnaean and Smithian butterflies and moths only. The remaining insects from the collection will be made available during 2009. The Fish archive contains all the 158 Linnaean fish specimens. ... [Information of the supplier]
PlantZAfrica.com is the site for information about plants native to southern Africa and related topics. There are more than 22 000 different species of seed plants indigenous to southern Africa. These are arranged into about 2 180 genera, which in turn form part of 227 families. We have described some of the more popular plants on this site. ... [Information of the supplier]
This Checklist gives information on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of monocot plants. It allows you to search for all the scientific names of a particular plant, or the areas of the world in which it grows (distribution). The checklist aims to provide data on all monocots by 2006. In this first release a limited amount of families have been made available (view list of included families). ... [Information of the supplier]
This site merges the book A Guide to Field Guides: Identifying the Natural History of North America by Diane Schmidt, Biology Librarian at the University of Illinois, and its companion Web site International Field Guides. After the publisher returned copyright to the book, the author decided to combine the two products and create a searchable database of field guides for plants, animals, and other objects in North America and around the world. Except where noted, all guides listed here were personally examined by the author. As used in this site, a field guide is a small, lightweight book used to identify plants, animals, or other objects. It is designed to be used outdoors and usually contains many illustrations, whether drawings or photographs, and limited text. Generally speaking, field guides are used by amateurs, hence the emphasis on visual identification. There are a number of different technical manuals, atlases, floras and faunas, handbooks, and keys for the use of professionals which are not listed here. ... [Information of the supplier]
This internet portal for the German flora contains information about observation and collection data. BioCASE enables the search for a specific taxon as well as expanded search requests, e.g. for habitats, collectors, or periods. With an expanded search function the synonyms in the standard flora lists are included in the search. The data are made available by various institutions such as herbaria or flora databases through the GBIF Network (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
