General Internet Resources for Botany
Botany On-line
(the "Internet Hyper-textbook")
The Internet Directory for Botany
(many links to plant families and hundreds of other botany topics).
Vascular Plant Image Gallary
(Texas A&M) (perhaps the most comprehensive collection of plant pictures on-line -- thousands of species!)
Life Sciences Internet Resources (Univ. of Illinois-UC)
Tree of Plant Divisions
at Univ. Calif. Musuem of Paleontology (click on phylogenetic tree branches to travel through the plant kingdom!)
National Science Foundation's Directorate for Biological Sciences
National Center for Biotech. Info.
(including
BankIt
,
GenBank
,
NCBI Taxonomy
and the
Nucleotide Query
)
Molecular Biology Protocols
Galleria Carnivora
(cyberspace-only "museum" of carnivorous plants)
Economic Botany Links
at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Systematics, Phylogeny, Taxonomy and Classification Links
International Code of Botanical Nomeclature
(St. Louis Code)
PhyloCode
-- an alternative to the ICBN, ICZN, and other codes, based strictly on phylogeny (and without reference to the Linnaean Hierarchy)
Index Herbariorum
(searchable lists of registered herbaria from throughout the world)
Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature
(U.Md) (a list of all validly published plant-family names)
Index Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium
(Database of Supergeneric Names of Vascular Plants)
Index Nominum Genericorum Plantarum
(Index of Generic Names of Plants)
DELTA
(DEscription Language for TAxonomy) (descriptions of plant families with links to pictures)
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server (Cornell)
International Organisation of Paleobotany
(including searchable
Plant Fossil Record
)
Tree of Life
(links to phylogenetic trees for ALL organisms, compiled from many different studies)
Green Plant Phylogeny Group
TAXACOM
(Biological Systematics and Biocollections Computerization Discussion Group)
DELTA
(DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
"Flora of North America"
Project (a collaborative effort to publish hard-copy and on-line treatments for the entire flora of North America, north of Mexico.
Phylogenetics Programs
Phylogenetic Analysis Computer Programs
MacClade Homepage
More Phylogeny Programs
TreeView
TreeBASE
Great Resourses found at Other Universities
Botany courses @ U. of Wisconsin
University of Maryland--Plant Taxonomy (Plant Biology 250)
University of Illinois--Systematics of Flowering Plants (Plant Biology 260)
Texas A&M University--Field Systematic Botany (Botany 620)
Plant Biology @ Ohio State, Lima
Trees & Shrubs of the U. of Richmond
Landplants On-line @ Southern Illinois U.
Teaching Collection @ Va. Tech Greenhouse
Plant Anatomy @ U. of Rhode Island
Plant Anatomy @ Nebraska Wesleyan
Biology of Algae @ U. Michigan
(image gallery)
Societies
Botanical Society of America
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Society of Systematic Biologists
International Association for Plant Taxonomy
International Organization of Plant Biosystematists
The Willi Hennig Society
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Association of Systematics Collections
Society of Australian Systematic Biologists
Australian Systematic Botany Society
The American Fern Society
The American Bryological and Lichenological Society
The Mycological Society of America
National Geographics Society
Gardens, Museums, Programs, etc.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago)
Smithsonian Institution Molecular Systematics
New York Botanical Garden
University of California Botanical Garden
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Kew
Virginia Natural Heritage Program
Australia:
Tropical Rainforest Research Centre
and
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
Dr. Plunkett's
Homepage--learn about his research
Last Updated: Jan. 15, A.D. 2002.
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