This site provides general information on the vascular flora of the island Réunion, including data on taxonomy, systematics, nomenclature, status, distributions, vernacular names and some other aspects. The present version of the Index, freely available on the web, is based on the Version 2007.1 (updated 12 June 2007) of the Index, comprising 9025 nomenclatural entries (botanical names), including 3953 taxonomic entities (representing 3953 taxa). ... [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
In 2011 the Federation des Conservatoires Botaniques Nationaux launched an ambitious collaborative project involving eleven national botanical conservatories of France. The project aims to establish a formal procedure and standardized system for data hosting, aggregation and publication for four areas: flora, fungi, vegetation and habitats. In 2014, the first phase of the project led to the development of the national flora dataset: SIFlore. As it includes about 21 million records of flora occurrences, this is currently the most comprehensive dataset on the distribution of vascular plants (Tracheophyta) in the French territory. SIFlore contains information for about 15'454 plant taxa occurrences (indigenous and alien taxa) in metropolitan France and Reunion Island, from 1545 until 2014. The data records were originally collated from inventories, checklists, literature and herbarium records. ... In order to present our results, a geoportal was developed by the Fédération des conservatoires botaniques nationaux that allows the SIFlore dataset to be publically viewed. As the FCBN belongs to the Information System for Nature and Landscapes’ (SINP), a governmental program, the dataset is also accessible through the websites of the National Inventory of Natural Heritage (http://www.inpn.fr) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (http://www.gbif.fr). (from Just et al., PhytoKeys 56 (2015): 47–60, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 FR) ... [Miscellaneous as indicated]
