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Gateway to African Plants
is a collaborative project to enable the identification species of plants
found in sub-saharan
Africa
and
Madagascar,
and to find further information about them. The resources contained in this community website, are also intended help contributors to the project develop
the identification tools.

 

Currently
the 4 main components of Gateway are:

 

An Interactive Key

This is a web-based multi-access identification
tool in LUCID and DELTA INTKEY formats, which when complete will enable
identification to any of the 4500 native genera of flowering plant of
Sub-Saharan Africa and
Madagascar
and provide the basis for idetification of species.

 

An
illustrated Glossary

Here the
terminology in the key is explained in non-technical English, with definitions from
a variety of literature sources. It is intended as an aid to users of the
finished key as well as a reference for contributors filling in taxon
scoresheets in order to help build the key.

 

A
standard Checklist of plant names

This is
based on R. Klopper et al’s
2006
Checklist: Flowering Plants of Sub-Saharan
Africa,
which is a complete index of accepted names and synonyms for Sub-Saharan
African plants for reference purposes. It consists of a full list of current
family names, each of which can be selected to reveal the current genus names
within that family.

 

A set of
detailed, literature-sourced Botanical Descriptions

Approximately
3000 genus descriptions are currently available on the site, but many more including species are
also soon to be added. These can be found by selecting names
in the checklist, or else via the interactive keys.

Thu, 2009-09-17 14:54 -- Anonymous (not verified)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith