The Botanical Exploration in Myanmar project is a collaborative effort involving participants from the U.S. National Herbarium, the Forest Department of Myanmar, and the University of Yangon. In April 2003 we published a checklist of the gymnosperms and angiosperms of Myanmar in the Smithsonian Contributions to Botany series. This checklist updates four previous editions dating back to 1912. This Web site presents only the 2003 version of the checklist. The database of names for the checklist is being kept up to date with new information and the current version is available here. ... [Information of the supplier]
Mrs. M.J. van Steenis-Kruseman laboriously collected all data on collectors in the Southeast Asian Archipelago, also known as Malesia (comprising Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Phillippines, Singapore). She published her data in Flora Malesiana series 1, volume 1 as the Cyclopaedia of collectors with some Addenda and corrigenda at the end of volume 1. Two supplements were published in Flora Malesiana ser. 1, vol. 5 and 8. The data of the volumes 1, 5 and 8 are now combined into this website. Flora Malesiana is the major flora for the Malay Archipelago. It is published by the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. The data are more or less complete up to 1974. Later data on collectors and their trips can be obtained from Flora Malesiana Bulletin (also a publication of the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland). ... [Information of the supplier]
Flora Malesiana is a systematic account of the flora of Malesia, the plant-geographical unit spanning six countries in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea. The family treatments are not published in a systematic order but as they come available by the scientific efforts of some 100 collaborators all over the world. Each family treatment contains keys for identification, descriptions of the recognized taxa from family to variety, and a large amount of information (with literature references) on, e.g., taxonomy, variability, synonymy, typification, distribution, habitats and ecology, morphology and anatomy, phytochemistry, and uses. Attention is given in the first place to the indigenous species but non-native, cultivated or escaped species are also treated (described and keyed out) or at least mentioned. Drawings and photographs illustrate the treatments, and as a general rule at least one species of each native genus has a full-page drawing. There are two series: I, Seed Plants, and II, Pteridophytes. ... [Information of the supplier]
Co’s Digital Flora of the Philippines is actually a checklist of vascular plants native to the Philippine archipelago. Leonard Co worked his entire life updating the checklist produced by Merrill in the 1920s. As such, it is not an actual flora where one typically finds keys and descriptions of each species. Many species entries are also accompanied by other information such as distributions within and outside of the Philippines, flowering and fruiting times, and economic uses. We have called this a Digital Flora because the checklist is supplemented with thousands of photographs of the plants. These photos often contain sufficient information for the user to make a positive identification of the plant. Thus, in lieu of actual keys and descriptions (which could be added later), we feel this is an expeditious approach to making information on the Flora available to many users. ... [Information of the supplier]
Some people say that the flora of this tiny city-state is among the most well-documented in the world. In terms of species lists, and for the tropics at least, we seem to have a pretty comprehensive record of what WAS here, what IS here, and given our small size, it would be easier for us than for others to carry on recording what WILL BE found here, as well as what will be going extinct. But given the dearth of plant autecological studies, not just in Singapore but throughout the tropics, we hardly know anything about many of our plant species aside from their names. Although we are armed with our species lists, we are scarcely able to make full use of it to understand or make predictions on the impacts of urban development on ecosystems. To catch up on this backlog of unresearched knowledge, it would probably take us another decade or two, by the time which ecological sophistication would have moved even further. Also, who would want to fund and support such research, which has been though of as so 19th century? There is a way, however. We can attempt to make use of technology and information tools to share our combined knowledge. Through incremental efforts, disparate bits and pieces of information from book floras, annotated checklists and online databases, as well as anecdoctal observations and published studies, can be put together in one place for easy cross-reference. Several plant-based biodiversity projects are always going on, and if the outputs can be summarised back to the same information source that they drew from, we can streamline the way our knowledge will grow. This blog is an attempt to bring together community and academic knowledge of plant biodiversity and ecology in Singapore. We will attempt to list all vascular plant species, of all habitats ranging from dipterocarps to seagrasses, whether exotic like the iconic raintree or Koster’s curse, or native like the sole surviving endemic Spatholobus ridleyi. With multiple pairs of eyes but one mouthpiece, this blog will be our combined notepad and textbook for information on the vascular plant flora of Singapore. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants is an identification system for all native and naturalised (i.e. introduced species with self-maintaining 'wild' populations) families of the Flora Malesiana region (including Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, East Timor and Papua New Guinea). The key is based on a small set of features of the vegetative, floral and fruit morphology and ecology. These features were chosen because they are relatively easy to assess from any reasonably intact flowering and/or fruiting specimen, and are readily interpreted in conjunction with the help of the notes and illustrations contained in the key. The key is mainly based on the books by Max van Balgooy (MALESIAN SEED PLANTS - Spot Characters (1997) and Plant Portraits (1998, 2001)) and incorporates additional information from L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz "The Families of Flowering Plants: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval. Version: 14th December 2000. ... [Information of the supplier]
It is a great pleasure to invite you to Bogor, Indonesia to participate to the 9th International Flora Malesiana Symposium. This year’s symposium will be an important and comprehensive forum in which botanists will gain invaluable experience from the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and opinions on plant systematics (including fungi, mosses, ferns, and lichens). We will discuss finding new species, the distribution of the important plant species for health, foods, clothing, etc., anatomy and morphology of plants of the regions for the purpose of proper identification, understanding habitats of the floras, and how to protect those plants from over-exploitation and manage them sustainable for the future generations. We cordially invite you to attend and participate in this significant event. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 17th Flora of Thailand Conference will take place at the Deevana Plaza Khabi-Aonang between the 21st and 25th August 2017. The chairman of the symposium is Prof. Dr. Henrik Balslev (Aarhus University, Denmark). [Information of the supplier, modified]
We welcome you to the 11th Flora Malesiana Symposium. We are most pleased to be hosting the 11th Flora Malesiana Symposium (FM11) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam on 30th June to 5th July 2019. The major themes that will be covered in FM11 are taxonomy, ecology and conservation [Information of the supplier, modified]
The 18th Flora of Thailand Conference will take place 13-17 July 2020 at the Botany Centre, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore. The Conference will be a hybrid of both in-person and online participation. [Editorial staff vifabio]
