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Botany Links

1. Links with a special relation to the NHN-Utrecht
2. Herbaria & Botanic Gardens 
3. Links on the Guianas
4. Links including a wide range of topics
5. Botanical databases
6. Links on special plant groups
7. On-line identification
8. Plant systematics
9. ICBN, Societies, Foundations, mailing lists
10. Where to find persons
11. Where to find images of plants
12. Geographic databases
13. For literature searches, see the Library of the NHN-L: http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/nhnlibrary/  

1.  Links with a special relation to the NHN-Utrecht

• Botanic Gardens Utrecht - http://www.bio.uu.nl/bottuinen/
• Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden branch - http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/rhb/
• Nationaal Nederland, Wageningen University branch - http://www.bis.wur.nl/uk/
• Tropenbos - http://www.tropenbos.nl/
• ETI - http://www.eti.uva.nl/
• Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum) - http://botany.si.edu/ing/
• George Clifford Herbarium (1685-1760), an early work of Linnaeus - http://www.george-clifford.nl/

2.  Herbaria & Botanic Gardens

• Index Herbariorum, part 1, The Herbaria of the World - http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/
• Index of Botanists: collectors and authors - http://brimsa.huh.harvard.edu/cms-wb/botanist_index.html
• Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London - http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/
• National Herbarium Trinidad & Tobago - http://www2.carib-link.net/~rfbarnes/herb.htm
• Herbaria Harvard University - http://www.huh.harvard.edu/
• INBio, Costa Rica - http://www.inbio.ac.cr/ ; mirror site: http://www.inbio.eas.ualberta.ca/
• Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis - http://www.mobot.org/welcome.html
• New York Botanical Garden - http://www.nybg.org/
• Smithsonian Institution (Botany) - http://www.nmnh.si.edu/departments/botany.html
• Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/
• Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut, Göttingen - http://www.gwdg.de/~botanik/avhi.htm
• Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris - http://www.mnhn.fr/
• Naturhistorisches Museum Wien - http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/
• Petrus Cadé Herbarium - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Cade
  The oldest herbarium of the Low Countries (1566), in book form. 

3.  Links on the Guianas

    a. Amazon Basin and / or Guiana Shield

• South America Rainforest Portal - http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Regions/South_America/
• Amazon Tree Diversity Network - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Amazon_plot_network/Index.htm
• GSMP = Guiana Shield Media Project - http://www.gsmp.org/
• Pan-Amazonia - http://www.edb.ups-tlse.fr/panamazonia/PANAMAZONIA.html

    b. the Guianas

• Flora of the Guianas - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/Flora_of_the_Guianas/index.htm
• Virtual Tree Guide of the Guianas - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/VTGG/Main.htm
• CI = Conservation International, the Guianas - http://www.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB/regions/neotropics/guianas.xml
• BDG = Biological Diversity of the Guianas - http://www.mnh.si.edu/biodiversity/bdg/
• Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas, 2nd ed. 1997 - http://www.mnh.si.edu/biodiversity/bdg/checklst.html

    b. Guyana

• Plant Diversity in Guyana - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Plant_Diversity_Guyana/index.htm
  Implications for a national protected areas strategy.
• CSBD = Centre for the Study of Biological Diversity - http://www.mnh.si.edu/biodiversity/bdg/csbd.html
• Climbers of Guyana - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/lianas/
  A key on vegetative characters for lianas from the Mabura Hill area, Central Guyana.
• SDNP Guyana = Sustainable Development Networking Programme - http://www.sdnp.org.gy/sdnp/index.shtml
• EPA = Environmental Protection Agency, Guyana - http://www.epaguyana.org/  
• IWOKRAMA = International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development - http://www.sdnp.org.gy/iwokrama/
• Tropenbos Guyana - http://www.tropenbos.nl/ - click Programmes, choose Guyana.

    c. Suriname

• CIS = Conservation International Suriname - http://www.ci-suriname.org/
• CSNR = Central Suriname Nature Reserve - http://www.ci-suriname.org/csnr/nl/index.htm
• SCF = Suriname Conservation Foundation - http://www.ci-suriname.org/scf/
• The Tropical Rainforest in Suriname - http://www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/suriname/suri-eng.html
• National Herbarium of Suriname - http://www.cqlink.sr/personal/homepages/vreedzaam/
• STINASU = Foundation for Nature Conservation in Suriname - http://www.stinasu.sr/
• Tropenbos Suriname - http://www.tropenbos.nl/ click Programmes, choose Suriname.

    d. French Guiana

• IRD = L'Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - http://www.cayenne.ird.fr/
• Herbier de Guyane (CAY) - http://www.cayenne.ird.fr/aublet2/
• Fungal and plant diversity of Central French Guiana - http://www.nybg.org/bsci/french_guiana/
• Trésor Rainforest Project in French Guiana - http://www.tresorrainforest.org/

4.  Links including a wide range of topics

• Botanic Sorting Machine - http://www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/folis/bsmain-e.html
• Internet Directory for Botany:
  * homepage: http://www.botany.net/IDB/
  * alphabetical List: http://www.botany.net/IDB/botany.html
• Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server - http://www/biodiversity.uno.edu/
• NBII = National Biological Information Infrastructure - http://www.nbii.gov/index.html
• Open Directory - http://dmoz.org/science/biology/
• Biology Catalogue - http://entowww.tamu.edu/research.collection/hallan/index.html
  A phylogenetic arrangement of the names of biological organisms down to the level of genus.

5.  Botanical databases

• ING = Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum) - http://botany.si.edu/ing/
• IPNI = International Plant Names Index - http:www.ipni.org/
  The product of a collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, the Harvard University Herbaria and the Australian National herbarium; mirror sites: http://www.us.ipni.org/ and http://www.uk.ipni.org
• CGI = Gray Card Index - http://herbaria.harvard.edu/Data/Gray/
• APNI = Australian Plant Names Index - http://155.187.10.12:80/cpbr/databases/apni.html
• Tropicos nomenclatural database and associated authority files - http://www.tropicos.org  
• ePIC = electronic Plant Information Centre - http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/epic/
• Conserved plant names: proposals and disposals -
• http://botany.si.edu/references/codes/props/index.cfm
• Vascular Plant Families and Genera (Brummitt) - http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/vascplnt.html
• Flowering Plant Gateway - http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/cronang.htm
  Many selection possibilities, starting either from the Cronquist, Takhtajan or Thorne system, or with the Vascular Plants Family Finder.
• Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature - http://www.plantsystematics.org/reveal/pbio/fam/revfam.html
  List of flowering plant higher taxa accepted by Cronquist, Dahlgren, Reveal, Takhtajan and Thorne; with links to complete listing of each system from division to family and with full synonymy.
• Validly published suprageneric names of extant vascular plants - http://www.plantsystematics.org/reveal/pbio/fam/sgindex.html
• NCU-3 = Names in current use for extant plant genera - http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/ncu/genera/default.htm
• IOPI = Provisional Global Plant Checklist - http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IOPI/GPC/default.htm
• TDWG = Taxonomic Databases Working Group - http://www.tdwg.org/
• Angiosperm Phylogeny (Stevens) - http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb
  A slight elaboration of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Classification (1998).
• Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/linnaean/

6.  Links on special plant groups

• Catalogue of New World Grasses (CNWG) - http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search/nwgc.html
• The Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall - http://www.cactus-mall.com/index.html
• The Succulent Plant Page - http://www.succulent-plant.com/
• Succulenta (Dutch Society for Cacti and other Succulents) - http://www.succulenta.nl/
• Florida Council of Bromeliad Societies - http://fcbs.org
• The American Orchid Society - http://orchidweb.org/
• The Orchid Weblopedia - http://conbio.bio.uci.edu/orchid/
• International Bryology - http://www.rbge.org.uk/bbs/intnatl.htm
• Fungal databases - http://nt.ars-grin.gov/fungaldatabases/databaseframe.cfm
• Apocynaceae of Mexico - http://www.botany.utexas.edu/graduate/grdpages/jkwill/introduction.html
• Gentianaceae - http://www.rutgers.edu/~struwe/gentnet
• Polygalaceae - http://www.joethejuggler.com/Polygalaceae
• Rubiaceae of the New World - http://www.rubiaceae.org

7.  On-line identification

• Thonner's analytical key to the families of flowering plants - http://home.iae.nl/users/linea/start.html
• World Wide Flowering Plant identification - http://www.colby.edu/info.tech/BI211/PlantFamilyID.html
  An implementation of the Hansen & Rahn punched card system for flowering plant family identification,
  published by Regnum Vegetabile.
• Climbers of Guyana - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/lianas
  A key on vegetative characters for lianas from the Mabura Hill area, Central Guyana.
• Virtual Tree Guide of the Guianas - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/VTGG/Main.htm

8.  Plant systematics

• DELTA - http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/
  With among others an index to DELTA Internet publications, e.g. the following:

• The Families of Flowering Plants, by Watson & Dallwitz - http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/index.html

9.  ICBN, Societies, Foundations, mailing lists

• International code of Botanical Nomenclature - http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/default.htm
• IAPT = International Association for Plant Taxonomy - http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/iapt/ - with a list of members.
• Alternative Website of IAPT - http://mason.gmu.edu/~ckelloff/vfunk/index.html
• ASPT = American Society of Plant Taxonomists - http://www.sysbot.org/ - with a list of members (incl. email addresses).
• SSB = Society of Systematic Biologists - http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/depts/systbiol/ - with a list of members (incl. email addresses).
• IOP = International Organisation of Palaeobotany - http://www.ohiou.edu/~iop/ - with a list of members (incl. email addresses).
• Jatun Sacha Foundation - http://jatunsacha.org/ - Ecuador, rainforests.
• Taxacom = Biological Discussion List - http://usobi.org/archives/taxacom.html
• EvolDir = Evolution Directory - http://life.biology.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir.html - with a list of members (incl. email addresses).

10. Where to find persons

• Index Herbariorum, part 1, The Herbaria of the World - http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/ih.html
• Index of Botanists: collectors and authors - http://brimsa.huh.harvard.edu/cms-wb/botanist_index.html
• Lists of members, with email addresses included: ASPT, SSB, IOP, EvolDir, see above group 9.
• PTO = Plant Taxonomists Online: created in 1990; not well updated, because most taxonomists
  either forget to send updates, or do not know where to send their corrections and additions;
  * introduction and address for updates - gopher://gopher.unm.edu:70/00/academic/biology/pto/about
  * searchable index - gopher://kaw.keil.ukans.edu:70/77/.indices/pto/pto
• Brummitt & Powell, Authors of Plant Names: is not any more available on line; see IPNI (group 5).

11. Where to find images of plants

• Virtual Tree Guide of the Guianas - http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/VTGG/Main.htm
• Virtual herbarium of CAY - http://www.cayenne.ird.fr/~aublet2/aublet2_uk.html
• Tropicos Image Index - http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/image/imagefr.html
• Botanical illustrations and photographs - http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/images.htm
  Bromeliaceae, Cactaceae and Melastomataceae.
• Bromeliads - http://fcbs.org/pictures.htm
• Historical collections of the Natural Histury Museum, London:
            Sir Hans Sloane (Jamaica) - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/databases/sloane/index.htm
            Paul Hermann (Ceylon/Sri Lanka), specimens and drawings - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/databases/hermann/index.htm
            John Clayton (Virginia) - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/clayton/index.html
            George Clifford, in whose estate Linnaeus worked for his Hortus Cloffortianus - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/databases/clifford/index.html
• Historical collections of the Natural History Museum, London:
            Linnaean Plant Name Typification project - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/linnaean/databasehome.html
• Type specimens present in AMD, L, U and WAG - http://nhncml.leidenuniv.nl/rhb/#types
• Type specimens present in NY - http://www.nybg.org/bsci/herbarium_imaging/
• Type specimens present in INBio, Costa Rica - http://www.inbio.ac.cr/tipos/herbario/tipos.html ; or mirror site: http://www.inbio.eas.ualberta.ca/en/serv/servic.html
• Type specimens present in S, in the Linnean herbarium - http://linnaeus.nrm.se/botany/fbo/welcome.html.en
• Type specimens present in FTG - http://www.ftg.fiu.edu/
  Includes also a virtual version of the herbarium of the Cayman Islands.
• Fruits of the Amazon Flora; images (and descriptions) of many fruits in watercolour by Betty (and Marc) van Roosmalen -
  http://amazonflora.com/index.htm

12. Geographic databases

• Global Gazetteer - http://www.calle.com/world/index.html
  A directory of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town.
• Maps and Gazetteers - http://docs.lib.duke.edu/maps/index.htm
• Survey of place name servers - http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm
• NIMA = National Imagery and Mapping Agency (GEOnet) - http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/
• Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
• National Geographic Map Machine - http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
  Downloadable political and physical maps; requires a 4.0 or higher browser.
• The Map Guide - http://www.stjernberg.com/maps/mapguide.htm
  With an index to continents and special kinds of maps.
• Vegetation and Plant distribution Maps - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html

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