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)

http://www.ipni.org/

Plants of the World Online

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/

The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php

Tropicos

http://www.tropicos.org/home

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

http://wcsp.science.kew.org/

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

http://plants.jstor.org/

Botanical latin

http://www.mobot.org/mobot/LatinDict/search.aspx

Online Floras

Australian plants

Victoria

https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/

South Australia

http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/

Western Australia

http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/

New South Wales

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/floraonline.htm

Tasmania

http://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/

Queensland

https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/plants/native-plants

Northern Territory

http://eflora.nt.gov.au/

South eastern Australia

https://hortflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/

Virtual herbarium

https://avh.chah.org.au/

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

http://www.nzflora.info/

South Africa

http://www.calflora.net/southafrica/plantnames.html

http://www.plantzafrica.com/

Zimbabwe

http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/index.php

Horticulture

Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria

http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/

Australian Native Plants Society

http://anpsa.org.au/index.html

Royal Horticultural Society (UK)

http://www.rhs.org.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

https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/conservation/threatened-species-and-communities/lists-of-threatened-species/threatened-species-vascular-plants

Weeds

Australia

http://weeds.ala.org.au/

Victoria

https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/weeds

New Zealand

http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/colleges/college-of-sciences/clinics-and-services/weeds-database/weeds-database_home.cfm

Other

Bromeliads

http://www.bsi.org/

Conifers. Gymnosperm Database

http://www.conifers.org/

Local plants, Melbourne

https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/PlantDirectory/Home