Botany Resources and Links

Here are a few of the websites that we consult routinely:

• Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
  • (digital biodiversity literature)
• Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum [BPH]
  • (index of botanical periodicals)
• Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria
• Cumulative Checklist for the Lichen-forming, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi of the Continental United States and Canada
  • (checklist of taxa reported for North America)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Index Fungorum
  • (mycological nomenclature database)
• Index Herbariorum
  • (global directory of public herbaria and associated staff)
• Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
• International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Shenzen Code 218)
• The International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
  • (nomenclatural and bibliographic data for seed plants, ferns, and fern allies)
• Kew Bibliographic Databases
  • (tool for access to the Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature, the Plant Micromorphological Bibliographic Database, and the Economic Botany Bibliographic Database)
• MycoBank
  • (mycological nomenclature and associated data)
• Myconet and Outline of Ascomycota
  • (Ascomycete classification)
• SEINet
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Botanical Links
• Tropicos
  • (nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data in Missouri Botanical Garden databases)
• USDA Plants Database
  • (information about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories)