General botanical links

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Taxonomic data Jstor Plant Science Jstor is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content".

Free access to this site for those involved with the Flora of Zimbabwe project has been kindly provided by Jstor.
Taxonomic literature Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the digitization component of the Encyclopedia of Life. It is a consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions. Its purpose is to make information, which in the past was generally available only to those with physical access to the collections, more widely available.
Taxonomic literature Botanicus Digital Library Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
Taxonomic literature Google Books Google's project to digitise the world's books contains many examples of books of botanical relevance.
World herbaria Index Herbariorum This is a searchable database of information about the world's herbaria.
Online floras Botanical journeys: online botany page A list of websites dealing with botany online; the coverage of European countries is done in more detail but there are also many links to websites in other parts of the world.
Identification tools Backyard Tree Identification Guide A website with links to various sites to assist in identifying trees. Although this site has a North American slant, there are a number of interesting links.

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: General botanical links.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/links-gen-bot.php, retrieved 20 April 2024

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