Datasets incorporated as source records, in sequence as provided

("partly edited" datasets see below)

Note that source records should not normally be edited in any form except to make them fit into the database and to convert special character encoding. In particular, no attempt is made to "normalize" the genera into consistent families; generic concepts and synonymies do differ between the sources. Also, abbreviations for taxon authors and geographical categories differ widely between and within sets.

Flora Europaea (ESFEDS)

Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru (Peru Checklist)

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

USDA Plants Database (PLANTS)

Vascular Plants of Russia and Adjacent Countries

Med-Checklist (Vol. 1 & 3)

Flora Europaea (ESFEDS database)

Used by permission of / owned by: Vernon Heywood

Maintained by: Richard Pankhurst, RBG Edinburgh

Export date: May 15, 1996

Conversion: The database is held in the Pandora system, the source file for the GPC in tagged field format was created by means of a report.

Notes on contents: No information about type specimens. Notes on habitat and distribution are only incompletely incorporated exept for Vol.1. Geographic distribution is given as a list of abbreviations of "territories" in Europe. The distribution zones for the former USSR (loosely 'Russia') are totally different from the from the Hollis and Brummitt scheme of Basic Recording Units (BRU's). For the rest of Europe, the Flora's scheme is almost identical to those BRU's."

Peru Checklist

Used by permission of / owned by: Missouri Botanical Garden

Downloaded 28.8.95 from Missouri Botanical Garden FTP site.

Direct link: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/peru.html

Conversion: Richard Pankhurst and Jane Nyberg, RBG Edinburgh. Jim Zarucchi's help throughout the process is gratefully acknowledged. The data file as received contained taxa in order of genera and species, without families. Genera were put into their correct family in an approximate form by using the Kew families and genera and then checked manually. Missing authority strings were filled in from Flora of Peru or from Index Kewensis. The use of subtaxon names and autonyms was made consistent as to the presence and position of the authority strings. There are cases where synonyms point to names which are themselves synonyms, and we have not attempted to correct this. Reflexive pointers were corrected with Jim Zarucchi's help. Pandora was used to edit the data, which were finally exported as a report.

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Used by permission of / owned by: Australian Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Canberra.

Received in February 1996 from Greg Whitbread

Direct link: Introductory information

Conversion: Richard Pankhurst, RBG Edinburgh. The provided dataset was imported into Pandora, edited, and exported as a report. Some missing data (probably caused in the export procedure) was added from the publication (basionym authors, family names, and some infraspecific epithets). Additional data in the family field (comments, names of tribes, etc.) were removed.

Notes on contents: This is a subset of the data that is in the full APNI database. It includes all names in APNI that were flagged (as of Jan. 1996) as also occurring in the Census of Australian Vascular Plants. Therefore there are very few synonyms other than basionyms included.

USDA Plants Database

Used by permission of / owned by: United States Department of Agriculture.

Received in January 1997 from Gus Ray

Direct link: Query the Plants Database

Conversion: The data was provided in tagged field format by the Plants Database Team of the USDA. Data import effected by Frank Wolfram (Berlin).

Vascular Plants of Russia and Adjacent Countries

© S.K. Czerepanov, 1996

Used by permission of the Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Received in October 1996 from Dmitri Geltman

Conversion: Richard Pankhurst, RBG Edinburgh. The provided dataset was imported into Pandora from pcTROPICOS, edited, and exported to text. The published book (Cambridge University Press) does not agree exactly with the database. There is data in the book e.g. parentage of hybrids, which is not in the database. There is also data in the database which is not in the book e.g. some new synonymy and place of publication. No attempt was made to convert the database so that it would agree exactly with the contents of the book. The authority strings have been converted from various standards used to the TDWG standard (Brummitt & Powell), except for about 400 which could not be accounted for. The names had been provided as strings, these were parsed and in many cases the higher taxa referred to were added. Numerous cases of synonyms of synonyms, and synonyms without accepted names were corrected. Relicts of Russian (Cyrillic) text were translated or removed. The abbreviations for books and journals have been corrected in many places, but inconsistencies remain particularly due to incomplete original data and different transliterations used. The conversion to IOPI format and the import into the checklist database was effected by W. Berendsohn.

Med-Checklist Vol. 1 & 3

Used by permission of:  Werner Greuter

Maintained by: W. Berendsohn

Export date: May 28, 1998

Conversion: The database is held at the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. Output for IOPI GPC-Format is directly generated by the Med-Checklist database.

Datasets incorporated as partly edited records (in sequence as provided)

Casuarinaceae

Used by permission of / owned by: LAS Johnson & KL Wilson (NSW) July 1996.

Received in July 1996 from Karen Wilson

Notes on contents: This dataset has been included to demonstrate the inclusion of partially edited data in the database.

Magnoliaceae

Used by permission of / owned by: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Received in December 1996 from David Frodin

Conversion: W. Berendsohn, with minor corrections, from a provided database in MS Access format.

Notes on contents: This dataset forms part of the following publication: Frodin, D. G. & Govaerts, R. (1996): World Checklist and Bibliography of Magnoliaceae. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.