Taxonomic links

Taxonomic scope	Link	Comment
Worldwide
World: selected plant families	World Checklist of Selected Plant Families	Checklists prepared by the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
World: genera	Genera: Index Nominum Genericorum	A compilation of generic names published for organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
World: plant names	International Plant Names Index	A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and fern allies.
World: plant names	The Plant List	The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. The current version (1.1) aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts). Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden enabled the creation of The Plant List by combining multiple checklist data sets held by these institutions and other collaborators.
TROPICOS	Missouri Botanical Garden	A searchable database of information held on plants at the Missouri Botanic Gardens. Emphasis is on the Americas, but there is much worldwide information as well.
Individual plant groups
Asclepiadaceae: genus Ceropegia	The genus Ceropegia	An interesting website concentrating on these unusual plants. Many beautiful images.
Fabaceae	International Legume Database and Information Service	Provides world-wide data on legumes and includes a searchable database.
Malvaceae	Malvaceae	Provides information on the family Malvaceae (including Bombacaeae, Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae).
Orchidaceae	Swiss orchid Foundation	The Swiss Orchid Foundation was created on the death of Dr Jany Renz in order to maintain his sientific and cultural legacy. The site contains images, drawings, herbarium specimens and the largest database of worldwide orchid literature.
Orchidaceae	Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia	Another detailed and interesting site on orchids with over 8,000 images compiled by Jay Pfahl.
Orchidaceae	Orchids of Central Africa	A web site which is the product of collaborative work in Belgium and Central Africa by a team of 6 authors led by Dr Vincent Droissart. It currently contains 733 images of 214 taxa. Although the area covered is somewhat distant to us, there is still an overlap in the species covered.
Parasitic plants	Parasitic Plants	A site on parasitic and other plants reflecting the interests of Henning S. Heide-Jørgensen.
Parasitic plants	The Parasitic Plant Connection	This site is a compilation of information about parasitic plants by an active researcher in this field, Dan L. Nickrent. There is much of great interest, including some images taken by us.
Proteaceae	Protea Atlas project	This site records the progress in recording data about Proteaceae in Southern Africa and the work towards publication of a 'Protea Atlas'.

Taxonomic links

Worldwide

Individual plant groups