Flora (book)

Flora is a book or other work which describes the plant species occurring in an area or time period, with the aim of allowing identification. Some classic and modern floras are listed below.

Traditionally floras are books, but some are now published on CD-ROM or websites. The area that a flora covers can be either geographically or politically defined. Floras usually require some specialist botanical knowledge to use with any effectiveness.

A flora often contains diagnostic keys. Often these are "dichotomous" keys, which require the user to repeatedly examine a plant, and decide which one of two alternatives given in the flora best applies to the plant.

Classic floras

;Europe
* "Flora Londinensis", William Curtis. England 1777- 1798
* "Flora Graeca", John Sibthorp. (England) 1806 - 1840
* "Flora Danica", Simon Paulli. Denmark, 1847.
* "Flora Jenensis", Heinrich Bernhard Rupp Germany, 1718.
* "Flora Scorer", Paolo Di Canio. 1723.
* "Flora Suecica", Carolus Linnaeus. 1745.

;India
* "Hortus indicus malabaricus", Hendrik van Rheede 1683–1703

;Indonesia
* "Flora Javae", Carl Ludwig Blume and Joanne Baptista Fischer. 1828.

Modern floras

Americas

;Caribbean
*Britton, N. L., and Percy Wilson. "Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands — Volume V, Part 1: Botany of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Pandanales to Thymeleales". New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1924.

;Central & South America
* [http://florabrasiliensis.cria.org.br/ "Flora Brasiliensis"]
* [http://www.ibot.sp.gov.br/PESQUISA/florasp/florasp.htm/ "Flora of São Paulo" in Brazil]
* [http://www.mobot.org/mobot/Research/chile/welcome.shtml "Flora de Chile"]
*" [http://www.mobot.org/manual.plantas/welcome.shtml Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica] "
* [http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/ecuador/welcome.shtml "Flora of Ecuador"]
*"Flora of Guatemala"
*" [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/nicaragua/flora.shtml Flora de Nicaragua] "
* [http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search/peru.html "Flora of Peru"]
*"Flora of the Guianas"
*"Flora of Panama"
* [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/Paraguay/projspep.html "Flora del Paraguay"]
*"Flora of Suriname"
*"Flora Mesoamericana" (1994-ongoing) [http://www.mobot.org/mobot/fm/intro.html Introduction]
* [http://www.mobot.org/mobot/Research/ven-guayana/welcome.shtml "Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana"]
*"Flora Neotropica" (1968-ongoing) [http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ofn/ofn.html Organising committee website] .

;North America
* [http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1 "Flora of North America"]
*Kearney, Thomas H. "Arizona Flora". University of California Press, 1940.
*Hickman, James C., editor. "The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California". University of California Press, 1993.
*Hultén, Eric. "Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants". Stanford University Press, 1968.
*Radford, Albert E. "Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas". University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
*Hitchcock, C. Leo, and Arthur Cronquist. "Flora of the Pacific Northwest". University of Washington Press, 1973.
*Chadde, Steve W., and Steve Chadde. "A Great Lakes Wetland Flora". 2nd ed. Pocketflora Press, 2002. ISBN 0-9651385-5-0
*P. D. Strausbaugh and Earl L. Core. "Flora of West Virginia". 2nd ed. Seneca Books Inc., 1964. ISBN 0-89092-010-9
*Ann Fouler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block. "The Plants of Pennsylvania". University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8122-3535-5
*Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. Addison Brown. "An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada". In three volumes. Dover Publications, 1913, 1970. ISBN 0-486-22642-5

Asia

;China and Japan
* [http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ "Flora of China"]
* [http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 "Flora of China in eFloras"]
* [http://web-japan.org/factsheet/flora/flora.html "Flora of Japan"] ;Southeast Asia
* [http://www.dnp.go.th/botany/BOTANY_eng/flora.html "Flora of Thailand"]
* "Florae Siamensis Enumeratio"
* "Flora Malesiana" (1984-ongoing) [http://www.floramalesiana6.ph/about.html About "Flora Malesiana"] .
* "Flora of the Malay Peninsula"
* "Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Viêt-Nam";Indian region and Sri Lanka
* [http://www.rbge.org.uk/rbge/web/science/research/biodiversity/flbhut.jsp "Flora of Bhutan"]
* Flora of the Presidency of Madras by J.S. Gamble (1915-36)
* [http://www.floraofnepal.org/ "Flora of Nepal"]
* Bengal Plants by D. Prain (1903)
* Flora of the upper Gangetic plains by J. F. Duthie (1903-29)
* Botany of Bihar and Orissa by H.H. Haines (1921-25)
* Flora of British India (1872-1897) by Sir J.D. Hooker;Middle East and western Asia
* Flora of Turkey
* Flora Iranica
* Flora Palaestina:
** M. Zohary (1966). Flora Palaestina part 1.
** M. Zohary (1972). Flora Palaestina part 2.
** N. Feinbrun (1978). Flora Palaestina part 3.
** N. Feinbrun (1986). Flora Palaestina part 4.
** A. Danin, (2004). Distribution Atlas of Plants in the Flora Palaestina Area (Flora Palaestina part 5).
** Online updates: http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?lang=en&action=showfile&fileid=14005

Australasia

* "Flora of Australia"
*"Flora of New Zealand" series:
**Allan, H.H. 1961, reprinted 1982. "Flora of New Zealand. Volume I: Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons." ISBN 0-477-01056-3.
**Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970, reprinted 1976. "Flora of New Zealand. Volume II: Indigenous Tracheophyta - Monocotyledons except Graminae." ISBN 0-477-01889-0.
**Healy, A.J.; Edgar, E. 1980. Flora of New Zealand Volume III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons." ISBN 0-477-01041-5.
**Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.;Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988. "Flora of New Zealand Volume IV: Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons." ISBN 0-477-02529-3.
**Edgar, E.; Connor, H.E. 2000. "Flora of New Zealand Volume V: Grasses." ISBN 0-478-09331-4.
**Volumes I-V: [http://FloraSeries.LandcareResearch.co.nz First electronic edition] , Landcare Research, June 2004. Transcribed by A.D. Wilton and I.M.L. Andres.
*Galloway, D.J. 1985. "Flora of New Zealand: Lichens." ISBN 0-477-01266-3.
*Croasdale, H.; Flint, E.A. 1986. "Flora of New Zealand: Desmids. Volume I." ISBN 0-477-02530-7.
*Croasdale, H.; Flint, E.A. 1988. "Flora of New Zealand: Desmids. Volume II." ISBN 0-477-01353-8.
*Croasdale, H.; Flint, E.A.;Racine, M.M. 1994. "Flora of New Zealand: Desmids. Volume III." ISBN 0-477-01642-1.
*Sykes, W.R.; West, C.J.; Beever, J.E.; Fife, A.J. 2000. "Kermadec Islands Flora - Special Edition". ISBN 0-478-09339-X.

Pacific Islands

* "Flora Vitiensis Nova, a New Flora of Fiji"
* "Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai‘i", Warren L. Wagner and Derral R. Herbst (1991) + suppl. [http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/supplement.htm]
* "Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie"
* "Flore de la Polynésie Française" (J. Florence, vol. 1 & 2, 1997 & 2004)

Europe

;British Isles
* Morton, O.1994. "Marine Algae of Northern Ireland." Ulster Museum, Belfast. ISBN 0 900761 28 8
* Stace, Clive Anthony, and Hilli Thompson (illustrator). "A New Flora of the British Isles". 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-521-58935-5.
* Beesley, S. and J. Wilde. "Urban Flora of Belfast". Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1997.
* Killick, John, Roy Perry and Stan Woodell. "Flora of Oxfordshire". Pisces Publications, 1998. ISBN 1-874357-07-2.
* Bowen, Humphry. "The Flora of Dorset". Pisces Publications, 2000. ISBN 1-874357-16-1.
* [http://193.62.154.38/celtica/fcb.htm Flora Celtica] Plants and people in Celtic Europe
* Flora Europaea at the site of The Royal Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh [http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/FE/fe.html Flora Europaea]
* [http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/aart/ Flora of Europe]
* [http://www.rjb.csic.es/floraiberica/ Flora iberica]
* [http://www.horta.uac.pt/species/plantae/inicio.htm Flora of Acores]
* [http://www.billeder.dnlb.dk/ Flora Danica]
* Flora of Romania

Africa and Madagascar

* Flore du Gabon
* Flore du Cameroun
* Flora of Tropical Africa
* Flora of Tropical East Africa
* Flora Capensis
* [http://www.kew.org/efloras/search.do "Flora Zambesiaca"]
* Flora of South Africa
* Flore du Rwanda
* Flore de Madagascar et des Comores