The following links are not meant to be exhaustive but a quick means of obtaining references to some of the many subjects which systematists deal with. Many of the sites have been chosen because they are rich in further links to their subject matter.

• Herbaria and censuses
• Tools for systematists
• Plant Groups
• Plant Use
• Plant Conservation sites
• Weeds
• Societies for Plant Systematics

Australia's Virtual herbarium
http://www.anbg.gov.au/avh/

Background to Australia's Virtual Herbarium
http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/HISCOM/Virtualherb/virtualherbarium.html

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/

Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH)
http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/

HISCOM (Herbarium Information Systems Committee)
http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/HISCOM/default.htm

Information on the WA flora from the Western Australian Herbarium (Florabase)
http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/

National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL)
http://www.rbgmelb.org.au/ps/

NSW Herbarium
http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/HTML/science/Systematics/Herbarium.html

N.V.W.Beadle Herbarium, University of New England (UNE)
http://www.une.edu.au/botany/herbw.htm

PlantNet: Information on New South Wales plant names, their distribution and their conservation status.
In the future it will provide botanical descriptions, habitat information, images, uses, diseases, and examples in cultivation.
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/

Queensland Herbarium
http://www.env.qld.gov.au/environment/science/herbarium/

Victorian Census of plants (VICLIST)
http://www.rbgmelb.org.au/viclist/

Index to Herbaria around the world (Index Herbariorum)
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/ih.html

Paleomap Project - illustrates the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
http://www.scotese.com/

Index to American botanical literature
http://scisun.nybg.org:8890/searchdb/owa/wwwIABL.searchform

Kew Record of taxonomic literature
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/kr/KRHomeExt.html

The Compleat Cladist: A Primer of Phylogenetic Procedures - E.O. Wiley, D. Siegel-Causey, D.R. Brooks, and V.A. Funk
http://www.nhm.ukans.edu/cc.html

V.Funk & M. Donoghue's comprehensive list of cladistic literature
http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/depts/systbiol/info/cladliterature.html

Willi Hennig Society - comprehensive links to cladistic resources
http://www.cladistics.org/

Notes for collecting plants (from CANB)
http://155.187.10.12/projects/collecting/collecting.html

Regulations for importing and exporting plants (Australian quarantine)
http://www.affa.gov.au/docs/quarantine/plants.html

Australian plant collectors and illustrators
http://155.187.10.12/bot-biog/index.html

Botanical collectors database of the Gray Herbarium
http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/Data/Collectors/

Common names applied to trees of Australia
http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~woodlink/toa.htm

Australian Gazeteer
http://www.auslig.gov.au/mapping/names/names.htm

Getty Thesaurus of geographic names (World Gazeteer)
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html

South Australian Gazeteer
http://www.placenames.sa.gov.au/
http://www.atlas.sa.gov.au/

Aquatic, wetland and invasive plant glossary
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/gloss-a.html#a1

Botany and palaeobotany dictionary on a children's educational site
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/glossary/

Plant anatomy on-line as part of Texas A&M's Botany 201 course
http://dallas.tamu.edu/weeds/anat.html

Plant glossary from the out-of-print Radford et al., Vascular Plant Systematics
http://www.ibiblio.org/botnet/glossary/

Various glossaries compiled for the publications of ABRS Flora
http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/flora/webpubl/glossaries.htm

Australian Science Archives Project
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/asaphome.htm

History from a botanical (American) viewpoint (time-line from 15 billion years BP to 1998)
http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Timeline.html

Mueller Correspondence Project
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/mueller/mock/

Society for the History of Natural History
http://www.shnh.org/

Australian plants
http://155.187.10.12/projects/aust-plant-images/aust-plant-images.html

European plants
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/aart/

Vascular Plant Image Gallery of Texas A & M University
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm

International Organisation for Plant Information (IOPI)
http://life.csu.edu.au./iopi/iopihome.html

Rules followed by all botanists in determining the correct name for a plant.
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/default.htm

Biodiversity and Biological collections web server
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/

Internet directory for botany
http://www.botany.net/IDB/

Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=Latin

University of Notre Dame: Latin dictionary and grammar aid
http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm

Words by William Whittaker: Latin Dictionary and grammar aid
http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe

Australasian Pollination Ecologists Society
http://www.roseworthy.adelaide.edu.au/APES/

For extensive links to world palynological sites
http://geo.arizona.edu/palynology/

Pollen grain images of Australian plants by Newcastle University
http://geo.arizona.edu/palynology/sem/nucastl.html

Australian plant name index (APNI)
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/databases/apni.html

Flora Europaea
http://www.rbge.org.uk/forms/fe.html

Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
Host to a number of databases. Particularly good for economic plants, including weeds.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/tax/

International plant name index (IPNI) - combined plant name index of CANB, Gray Herbarium and Kew
http://www.ipni.org/

While there is other software about, most Australian botanists use one or both of those listed below.

Delta
http://www.biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/

LucID
http://www.lucidcentral.com/

Clayton Herbarium at BM
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/clayton/index.html

Linnean types in Stockholm
http://linnaeus.nrm.se/botany/fbo/types.html.en

Algae

Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany (ASPAB)
http://possum.murdoch.edu.au/~cowan/phycaq.html

Background information and database of Australian freshwater algae
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/PlantNet/fwalgae/index.htm

Marine algae of Australia database (AMANI)
http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif.htm

Centre for Aquatics and Invasive Plants, Florida
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/

A comprehensive resource devoted to bryology
http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/

Comprehensive Family descriptions, list of genera, economic uses generated from Delta datasets
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/index.htm

An index of web links relating to Families and included taxa
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/cronang.htm

Comprehensive list of fungal resources on the web
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/~fungi/welcome.html

Fungi Information, including an interactive catalogue of Australian Fungi
http://www.rbgmelb.org.au/fungi/

Fungimap: a collaborative project to gather information about the distribution of fungi throughout Australia
http://calcite.apana.org.au/fungimap/

Checklist of Australian lichens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/lichenlist/introduction.html

Checklists of lichens from different areas of the world, many available on the Web
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/ialb/herbar/

Plant viruses on-line
http://biology.anu.edu.au/Groups/MES/vide/refs.htm

Aboriginal plant use

Aboriginal plant use in South-Eastern Australia (based on a trail developed by the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra)
http://www.anbg.gov.au/aborig.s.e.aust/

Aboriginal plant use in South-Eastern Australia
http://search.museum.vic.gov.au/docpub/documents/10319.pdf

Aboriginal plant use trail at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens
http://oac.schools.sa.edu.au/oes/abg/

Extensive bibliography of books and papers on traditional uses of Australian bush plants
http://www.anbg.gov.au/bibliography/bushfood.html

Plant use in North-east Arnhem land
http://www.octa4.net.au/dhimurru/plants.html

Plant use in the wet tropics area of Queensland
http://www.wettropics.gov.au/rah/heritage_home.htm

Australian Bush Tucker: New Crops, New Industry - text of a talk given at the 5th International Botanic Gardens Conservation Congress
http://www.nbi.ac.za/bgci98/html%20files/christensen.htm

A comprehensive site on new crops being introduced into Australia - a number of searchable databases and comprehensive links.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/default.html

Henriette's Herbal Homepage
Acknowledged as one of the best herbal medicine sites, numerous links
http://ibiblio.org/herbmed/

HerbMed - an interactive, electronic herbal database
http://www.herbmed.org/

Medical Botany Library (Florida Plants Online)
Numerous articles on such subjects as plant allergens, poisonous plants, pharmacology, phytochemistry together with images of many of these plants.
http://www.floridaplants.com/mimmun.htm

Phytochemical and ethnobotanical databases
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/

Australian Network for Plant Conservation
http://www.anbg.gov.au/anpc/index.html

Bushcare
http://www.environment.gov.au/bg/bushcare/

Conservation Council of South Australia
http://www.ccsa.asn.au/

Nature Conservation Society of South Australia (issues dealing with South Australian biodiversity)
http://www.ncssa.asn.au/

Threatened species (world)
http://www.redlist.org/

Threatened Species Network (Australia)
http://www.nccnsw.org.au/member/tsn/

Australian plant species which are weeds (in Australia)
http://farrer.riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/weeds.html

Environmental weeds in Australia
http://weeds.merriweb.com.au/

Invasive garden plants (list is for WA, but applies in South Australia)
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/weedsci3.htm

Large weed site with comprehensive links (previously Sandy's Links Page)
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/links.htm

Proclaimed plants of Adelaide Plains with images
http://www.chariot.net.au/~adplains/plants.htm

Weed and environmental management database lists - comprehensive list of South Australian resources, including lists of declared weeds with images
http://www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/geog/weeds/Weedlinks.htm

Weed databases and lists
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/links/weed_databases.htm

Weeds CRC
http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/CRCWMS/

Australian Systematic Botany Society
http://155.187.10.12/asbs/

International Association for Plant Taxonomy
http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/iapt/

 

Society for Australian Systematic Biologists
http://www.science.uts.edu.au/sasb/

Date last modified: 2007-08-28

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