Names and Nomenclature
International Plant Names Index (IPNI), includes Index Kewensis, Gray Card Index, etc.
Index Nominum Genericorum.
Index Fungorum.
W3 TROPICOS has a great deal of nomenclature and specimen information.
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Tokyo & St Louis Codes in several languages.
Kew Author Abbreviations, included within the IPNI site (see also the Harvard version).
Linnaean Plant Names Database.
Literature
Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature.
Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum (BPH & BPH/S) standard journal abbreviations.
Taxonomic Literature 2(TL2) standard book abbreviations.
Gabriel: Gateway to European National Libraries.
RBGE Library.
Natural History Museum, London, Library.
RBG Kew Library.
Gallica: French Libraries Early literature, good for early botanical works, e.g. Candolle, Durande, Jussieu, Linne (Linnaeus), etc.
Botanical E-Journals.
Curtis' Botanical Magazine.
Flora of Australia Glossary.
Botanical Latin Translator.
AltaVista Babekfish Translator.
Herbarium Specimens
Index Herbariorum.
Many Herbaria are starting to put their collections online, either just text label data or with images of the specimens. The Global Herbarium Portal is a useful starting point as is the
Tel Aviv Listing of Hebaria Online.
Harvard University Herbaria Collectors Index.
Sites to aid geo-referencing include Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns and
US National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) Public Geographic Names Server.
East Himalayan Gazetteer of Plant Collecting Localities.
Living Collections
Several Botanic Gardens' have online catalogues, e.g.
RBGE Living Collections.
Those usings BG-BASE and HTMLEXPORT are linked through the RBGE Multisite Search.
General Information
Any major searchengine, e.g. Google, Altavista, Yahoo.
Internet Directory for Botany, an alphabetic list of sites with a search facility.
RBGKew Electronic Plant Information Centre, (EPIC).
Flowering Plant Gateway, includes synopses of major classifications, e.g. Cronquist, Takhtajan, Thorne, APG.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG).
Species2000.
All Species Foundation.
The UK National Biodiversity Network.
IOPI Global Plant Checklist, provisional.
Species Plantarum Project.
There are lots of sites serving images, e.g. Texas A & M University.
Miscellaneous
Taxonomic group-specific websites are growing in number, e.g. Umbellifer Resource Centre. Try typing in the taxonomic group name into an internet search engine.
International Association of Plant Taxonomy.
TAXACOM general systematists listserver (plants & animals).
Mycology Net.
Global Taxonomy Initiative, GTI.
Taxonomic Databases Working Group, or Berlin mirror.
Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory.
Edinburgh Nepal 2001 Expedition Report.
Herbarium Supply Company.
Online Floras
Flora of China Checklist.
Myanmar Checklist.
Flora of China.
Flora of North America.
Flora of the Canadian Archipelago, includes DELTA descriptions and keys.
Flora of Japan.
Flora of Europe photgraphic guide.
Flora Himalaya Database, from Savoie University.
Flora of Bhutan Umbelliferae, prototype.
eFloras.
Online Keys and Description Coding
ActKey, major groups in Flora of China, plus several others, e.g. Hansen & Rahn's classic key to Angiosperms.
Hansen & Rahn, an online version of the classic punched card Key to Angiosperms.
Thonner’s Analytical Key to Flowering Plant Families.
Free DELTA.
DELTA and INTKEY homepage.
Mark Watson & Tony Miller, November 2004