Useful Links

Plant Websites

Name

Web Site

Local Flora and Vegetation website, by the Chinese University of Hong Kong

http://www.hkflora.com

Flora of China

http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/

Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 中國植物誌

http://159.226.89.62/copy_of_159_226_89_44/frps/frps.htm

Flora of Taiwan臺灣維管束植物簡誌

http://wagner.zo.ntu.edu.tw/preserve/vascular_34/Book1/index-1.htm

International Association of Plant Taxonomy

http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/iapt/

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

http://www.redlist.org/

Botanical Society of America

http://www.botany.org/

International Directory of Botany

http://www.botany.net/IDB/

Australian Plant Biodiversity Centre

http://www.anbg.gov.au/

The w3TROPICOS vascular plant nomenclatural database, Missouri Botanical Garden

http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

http://www.bgbm.org/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm

Index Herbariorum – Part 1: The Herbaria of the World

http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/searchih.html

 

Herbaria
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Name

Acronym

Web Site

Asia  

South China Institute of Botany, Guangzhou

SCIB

http://www.scib.ac.cn

Chinese National Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Beijing

PE

http://pe.ibcas.ac.cn/

Kunming Institute of Botany, Yunnan

KUN

http://www.kib.ac.cn/

National University of Taiwan, Taipei

TAI

http://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/default.htm

Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taipei

HAST

http://hast.sinica.edu.tw/

Philippine National Herbarium, Manila

PNH

http://www.pnh.com.ph/

Herbarium, National University of Singapore

SINU

http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/research/herbarium.html

The Forest Herbarium, Thailand

BKF

http://www.forest.go.th/Botany/Flora/Flora_introduction.htm

University of Malaya Herbarium

KLU

http://rimba.um.edu.my/

Europe 

The Natural History Museum, London, UK (“British Museum”)

BM

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/

Herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, UK

K

http://www.rbgkew.org.uk

Herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland

E

http://www.rbge.org.uk/

Herbarium of the Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

B

http://www.bgbm.org/BGBM/research/colls/herb/default.htm

Natural History Museum of Florence (Firenze), Italy

FI

http://www.unifi.it/unifi/msn/main_eng.htm

Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden branch, the Netherlands

WU

http://nhncml.leidenuniv.nl/rhb/#addresses

North America

Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY

NY

http://www.nybg.org

Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO

MO

http://www.mobot.org

The University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley, CA

UC

http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/

US National Herbarium, The Smithsonian Institutions, Washington DC

US

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/colls.htm

Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA

HUH

http://www.huh.harvard.edu/

 

Botanical Gardens and Arboretum
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Name

Web Site

Shing Mun Arboretum, Hong Kong

http://www.afcd.gov.hk/conservation/eng/shing_mun_arboretum.htm

South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China

http://www.scbg.ac.cn/

Beijing Botanical Garden, China

http://garden.ibcas.ac.cn/jianjie.htm

Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, U.K.

http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/

Arnold Arboretum, USA

http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/

New York Botanical Garden, USA

http://www.nybg.org/

Missouri Botanical Garden, USA

http://www.mobot.org/

Australian National Botanical Gardens, Australia

http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/

Botanic Garden Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

http://www.bgbm.org/BGBM/garden/default.htm

The Botanical Garden of the University

http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/hbv/english/hbv.htm

Rimba Ilmu Botanic Garden, Malaysia

http://rimba.um.edu.my/

Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland

http://www.rbge.org.uk