| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Launch date | October 2012 |
| Current status | Active |
| Author | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden |
World Flora Online is an Internet-based compendium of the world's plant species.
Description
The World Flora Online (WFO) is an open-access database, launched in October 2012 as a follow-up project to The Plant List, with the aim of publishing an online flora of all known plants by 2020.[1] It is a project of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, with the goal of halting the loss of plant species worldwide by 2020. It is developed by a collaborative group of institutions around the world in response to the 2011–2020 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC)'s updated Target 1: to produce "an online flora of all known plants".
An accessible flora of all known plant species was considered a fundamental requirement for plant conservation. It provides a baseline for the achievement and monitoring of other targets of the strategy. The previous target of GSPC was achieved in 2010 with The Plant List.[2][3] WFO was conceived in 2012 by an initial group of four institutions; the Missouri Botanical Garden, the New York Botanical Garden, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[4] In all, 36 institutions are involved in the production.[3]
World Flora Online developed WFO's Plant List (wfoplantlist.org) to replace the traditional Plant List v.1.1 (plantlist.org).[5] In 2024, Pl@ntNet joined the WFO consortium.[6]
See also
References
- ^ WFO 2019.
- ^ TPL 2013.
- ^ Miller & Ulate 2017.
- ^ MBG 2019.
- ^ Team, W. F. O. (2021). "World Flora Online gets a New Look, a major data update, and launches the WFO plant list". Taxon. 70 (6): 1418–1419. Bibcode:2021Taxon..70.1418.. doi:10.1002/tax.12557. ISSN 1996-8175
- ^ CIRAD (2024-11-04). "Le Cirad rejoint le consortium international World Flora Online" (in French). CIRAD. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
Bibliography
- Miller, Chuck & Ulate, William (23 August 2017). "World Flora Online Project: An online flora of all known plants". Proceedings of TDWG. 1. doi:10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20529
- "World Flora Online: An international initiative of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation". The World Flora Online Consortium. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- "World Flora Online". Plant Science. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- "The Plant List". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Missouri Botanical Garden. 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2019., see also The Plant List