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Flora of Australia Online: Data information

The Flora of Australia Online database is no longer being updated.
The Flora of Australia is now being delivered on a new interactive web platform available at: www.ausflora.org.au

The information in the Flora of Australia Online website was first published in the Flora of Australia series, produced by the Australian Biological Resources Study and co-published with CSIRO Publishing (previously with the Australian Government Publishing Service).

In addition a limited amount of information for the remaining families and genera (not treated in the 17 volumes currently in the Flora of Australia Online) has also been added to the Flora of Australia Online. The main source for this information is the Families of Flowering Plants of Australia CD ROM, supplemented by the Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens and The Western Australian Flora: a descriptive catalogue. Links to the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) have been included with these additional names, and via APNI links are available to online images in the Australian Plant Image Index held at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

The XML schema for the databased information is available through the navigation bar.

The information for taxa includes important references, synonymy, type collections, chromosome numbers, distribution, habitat, and published illustrations. Descriptions are based on Australian material except for some taxa not confined to Australia for which the collections in Australian herbaria are inadequate. The treatments vary in their content, and not all fields (e.g. common names, chromosome number, conservation status) are described for each treatment.

Synonymy is restricted to names based on Australian types or used in Australian literature. Misapplied names are given in square brackets together with an example of the misapplication. Alien taxa established in one or more localities, other than under cultivation, are considered naturalised and are included and asterisked (*).

Families are arranged in the system of A.Cronquist, An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (Columbia University Press, New York, 1981). Within families, genera and species are usually arranged to show natural relationships as interpreted by contributors.

A list of families, their contributors, whether they are published in the Flora of Australia book series (and date of publication) and whether they are available in Flora of Australia Online is given at What’s published and online, contributors and dates of publication. In addition a limited amount of information for the remaining families and genera (not treated in the 11 volumes currently in the Flora of Australia Online) has also been added to the Flora of Australia Online. The main source for this information is the Families of Flowering Plants of Australia CD ROM, supplemented by the Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens and The Western Australian Flora: a descriptive catalogue. Links to the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) have been included with these additional names, and via APNI links are available to online images in the Australian Plant Image Index (APII) held at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

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