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Threatened Plants of the World

Overview of the
WCMC Threatened Plants Database and production of the
1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants

The WCMC Threatened Plants Database has been developed over a period of many years. Currently it contains data on more than 140,000 plant names, linked to over 190,000 distribution areas. This information originates from and is linked to over 19,000 data sources. These include national red lists, input from members of IUCN Species Survival Commission plant groups and a wide range of published and unpublished literature.

The data are managed using BG-BASE collections management software, widely adopted by botanical institutions throughout the world.

Electronic Datasets

Four major datasets were made available to WCMC to integrate into this global database for the production of the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. These were provided by:

• The Nature Conservancy (for North and South America)
• the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (Australia)
• South Africa's National Botanical Institute (southern Africa) and
• Flora Europaea

  For the most up-to-date data please contact these organisations directly.

Searchable Database

A subset of data from the database is provided here as a searchable database. This subset includes the plant records published in the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants and contains:

• scientific and common names
• synonyms
• global threat status (following the original IUCN threat categories), and
• distribution to local (country or BRU) level, threat status at this level and
• CITES listing

The previous web site, containing the European subset, is available here.

For further information please write to: Information Office, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1223 277314; Fax: +44 1223 277136. Email: info@wcmc.org.uk Document URL: http:// www.wcmc.org.uk /species/plants/index.html Revision date: 7-January-2000 Current date: 21-January-2000
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