Database

Global

1. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - an international network and research infrastructure for species occurrence data

2. Plant trait database (TRY) - a network of vegetation scientists providing free and open access to plant trait data

3. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) - a database of economically important plants, managed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

4. Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) - a compilation of annotated and verified country-wise inventories of introduced and invasive species, hosted by IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group

5. Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) - a free, online searchable source of information about alien and invasive species

6. Plants of the World Online (POWO) - an online global resource of Kew's botanical knowledge

7. The Plant List (TPL) - a comprehensive working list of all known plant species (especially Vascular plants and Bryophytes)

8. International Plant Names Index (IPNI) - nomenclatural information for the scientific names of Vascular Plants

9. World Flora Online (WFO) - an open-access, Web-based compendium of the world’s plant species

10. Invasive Species Compendium (ISC) - a resource of science-based information to support decision-making in invasive species management worldwide

11. Tropicos - nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data accumulated in Missouri Botanical Garden's electronic databases; nearly 1.3 million scientific names and over 4.4 million specimen records

12. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - to search for all the scientific names of a particular plant, or the areas of the world in which it grows

13. Global Climate Data - a set of global climate layers that can be used for mapping and spatial modelling

14. Paleoclimate data - a database of standard bioclimatic variables for different paleoclimate simulations

15. Spatial data - GADM, DIVA-GIS (free spatial data, e.g. administrative boundaries, for mapping and modelling)

 

Regional (India)

1. Flowers of India (information about all the flowers found in India, with their common names, especially in Indian languages, pictures and habitat)

2. Indian Medicinal Plants Database (This database incorporates 7263 botanical names, more than 1,50,000 vernacular names in ten different Indian languages & more than 5000 authentic images of Indian medicinal plants duly linked to the specific botanical entities)

3. Flora of Peninsular India (A great wealth of valuable botanical information on the Indian peninsular flora)

4. eflora of India (Database of Indian Plants- developed by the members of Efloraofindia Google Group)