Links
Introduction
This section provides some useful website links that provide further information on plant names and taxonomy, online floras and plant identification, as well as threatened species, weeds and some other useful links. It is not comprehensive.
Plant names
The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
All plant names in Australia, i.e. both native and naturalised exotic.
http://www.anbg.gov.au/apni/index.html
The Australian Plant Census (APC)
Currently accepted names of plants in Australia.
http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/apc/about-APC.html
Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/databases/names.html
International Plant Name Index (IPNI)
Plants of the World Online
http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/
The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php
Tropicos
Californian Plant Names
A useful and quite comprehensive list of the meanings and origins of plant names as used in California.
http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/index.html
Catalogue of Taxon authorities
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catalog:Taxon_Authorities/A
Taxonomy
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/welcome.html
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Classification of Magnolia
http://www.magnoliasociety.org/ClassificationArticle
Plant identification
EUCLID - Eucalypts of Australia
https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html
WATTLE - Acacias of Australia
https://apps.lucidcentral.org/wattle/text/intro/index.html
Global Plants
Botanical latin
http://www.mobot.org/mobot/LatinDict/search.aspx
Online Floras
Australian plants
Victoria
https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/
South Australia
Western Australia
http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/
New South Wales
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/floraonline.htm
Tasmania
Queensland
https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/plants/native-plants
Northern Territory
South eastern Australia
https://hortflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/
Virtual herbarium
Exotic plants
World Flora Online
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/
Various
http://www.efloras.org/index.aspx
On-line Floras of Chile, China, Missouri, North America, and others. Not complete but useful.
Chile
http://www.chileflora.com/index.html
New Zealand
South Africa
http://www.calflora.net/southafrica/plantnames.html
Zimbabwe
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/index.php
Horticulture
Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria
Australian Native Plants Society
http://anpsa.org.au/index.html
Royal Horticultural Society (UK)
Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx
Threatened species
Australia
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicthreatenedlist.pl?wanted=flora
Victoria
https://www.environment.vic.gov.au/conserving-threatened-species/threatened-species-advisory-lists
Tasmania
Weeds
Australia
Victoria
https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/weeds
New Zealand
Other
Bromeliads
Conifers. Gymnosperm Database
Local plants, Melbourne