Botany Taxonomy

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Angiosperm DNA C-Values Database Query
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

BG-Map Botanical Garden Mapping System
"...information here on computerized mapping of plant collections typically housed at facilities such as botanical gardens, arboreta, zoos, and large private estates."

CABI Bioscience
"...integrates four former international biological institutes, the International Institute of Biological Control (IIBC), the International Institute of Entomology (IIE), the International Institute of Parasitology (IIP) and the International Mycological Institute (IMI)."

Databases

• Bibliography of Systematic Mycology - (dead link)
  "...a survey of the literature encompassing the biodiversity, classification, distribution, evolution, identification, nomenclature, phylogeny, systematics and taxonomy of fungi (including those groups traditionally treated as fungi but now better classified in other kingdoms)."
• The Dictionary of the Fungi - (dead link)
  "...contains the current consensus on the fungal taxonomic hierarchy to the rank of genus."
• Family Names - (dead link)
  "...which includes authors, place of publication and type genus. This database will eventually be expanded to include all supra-familial ranks."
• IndexFungorum; aka funindex - (dead link)
  "...contains over 345,000 names of fungi (including yeast, lichens, chromistan fungi, protozoan fungi and fossil forms) at species level and below."

GRIN Taxonomy
"...provide the structure and nomenclature for the accessions of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Many plants (35,000 taxa, 13,000 genera) are included."

Index Nominum Genericorum (ING) - (dead link)
A collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution

International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) - (dead link)
"...established in Nairobi in 1977, is an autonomous, non-profit research body supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. ICRAF aims to improve human welfare by alleviating poverty, improving food and nutritional security, and enhancing environmental resilience in the tropics...ICRAF conducts strategic and applied research, in partnership with national agricultural research systems, for more sustainable and productive land use."

• Tree Databases - (dead link)
  • Botanic Nomenclature for Agroforestry Trees - (dead link)

International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
"...is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names...IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium.

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MycoKey
"...is a synoptic key for determination of fungal genera. This version includes 280 genera and about 1090 illustrated species. It covers the genera of basidiomycota with stem and cap (Agarics, Boletes etc.), polypores and club fungi from Northern Europe (i.e. Europe north of the Alps)."

Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney - (dead link)

• PlantNET - (dead link)
  The Plant Information Network System
  "...can be searched for information on New South Wales plant names, their distribution and their conservation status."
  • National Herbarium of New South Wales - Catalogue of Type Specimens - (dead link)
    "Preserved type specimens are the basis and permanent reference point for scientific plant names. These types are an essential resource for botanists and students of biodiversity world-wide, ensuring that plant names are always properly applied and understood

TreeBASE
A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge
"...is a relational database of phylogenetic information sponsored by Harvard University Herbaria, Leiden University EEW - (dead link), and the University of California, Davis. TreeBASE stores phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers."

Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature
Maintained by James L. Reveal