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Botanical Accuracy

Would you care if someone called a cat a mouse in the description of a medieval painting? What if books on plants were illustrated with the wrong plants? Botanical errors can be just as egregious as those involving art history, foodstuffs and other products. This delightful website looks at botanical mistakes in commercial and public venues and offers up educational information and commentary on...

http://www.botanicalaccuracy.com/
eFloras.org: ActKey

Provided by the Harvard University Herbarium, ActKey allows visitors to locate and use a key for identifying an unknown specimen. As is noted on the site, "ActKey was developed to enable ready-access to on-line interactive keys. The program is web-based. Common Internet browsers may be used to access the interface." Thus, by visiting the site, users can choose from over five pages of keys, ranging...

http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1001
ICE Biological Inventories Databases

The Information Center for the Environment (ICE) is a cooperative effort between scientists at University of California -- Davis and collaborators from over thirty organizations involved in environmental protection." The ICE Biological Inventory Databases contain "documented, taxonomically standardized species inventories of plants and animals reported from the world's protected areas." New to the...

https://www.ice.ucdavis.edu/project/bioinventory.html
Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Six US federal agencies have worked together to develop an efficient system for naming and classifying all of nature's living organisms. As the basic currency of scientific research, management, and education, ITIS is "a database of the current names and classifications of all biota." The website is organized into three main sections: About ITIS (general overview), Data Access (how to query the...

https://www.itis.gov/mou.html
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)

A collaborative initiative of The Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew), The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium, the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a comprehensive, literature-based database of the scientific names and associated basic bibliographical details of all vascular (seed) plants. A dynamic resource intended for use by all members of the botanical...

http://www.ipni.org/
Kohler's Medizinal Pflanzen

The Missouri Botanical Garden recently released an electronic version of Hermann A. Kohler's 1887 magnus opus, Medizinal-Pflanzen, a three-volume set of "plants of medicinal interest from several European nations." Over 270 chromolithographic illustrations have been digitized from slides and included in this browseable site. The Tour of Illustrations section leads the visitor, one by one, through...

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10836#page/3/mode/1...
Northeast Wetland Flora: Field Office Guide to Plant Species

The USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service's Northeast National Technical Center in Chester, Pennsylvania produced Northeast Wetland Flora: Field Office Guide to Plant Species. The guide contains black and white illustrations, full species descriptions (with color photographs, illustrations, and small distribution maps), illustrated glossaries, an alphabetical species list (provides common and...

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0719/ML071980102.pdf
South African National Biodiversity Institute: PlantZAfrica.com

From the South African National Biodiversity Institute, PlantZAfrica.com presents information "about plants native to southern Africa and related topics." The website exhibits an extensive array of plant profiles representing a portion of the over 22,000 "different species of seed plants indigenous to southern Africa." The profiles are listed alphabetically by scientific name and contain images,...

http://pza.sanbi.org/
Synopsis of Chrysochlamys (Clusiaceae: Clusioideae: Clusieae) in Mesoamerica

The Missouri Botanical Garden has placed online a recent, data-rich publication on botanical research in the Neotropics. This publication examines taxonomy of Chrysochlamys, including a key to the thirteen species of Chrysochlamys recognized for Mexico and Central America. The publication is written by Dr. Barry E. Hammel and includes several clear, black-and-white photographs as illustrations...

http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/mesoamerica/chrysoch/chr...
The Virtual Herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden is in the process of cataloging its numerous specimens and has recently placed online several searchable databases. Search options allow users to search for specific taxa, and typical returns provide brief information (some hyperlinked) including Name (scientific), Location, Collector, Description (brief), Habitat, Publication, Type Status, and Specimen Number (ID)....

https://www.nybg.org/
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