LCVP, The Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants

Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN): a community contributed taxonomic checklist of all vascular plants of Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Greenland

The Database of Vascular Plants of Canada or VASCAN (http://data.canadensys.net/vascan) is a comprehensive and curated checklist of all vascular plants reported in Canada, Greenland (Denmark), and Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France). VASCAN was developed at the Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre and is maintained by a group of editors and contributors. For every core taxon in the checkli...

STUDY OF VASCULAR PLANTS OF BAMU NATIONAL PARK (FARS PROVINCE)

In this research, vascular plants of Bamu National Park (48000 ha.) situated in Fars province were studied. Analyses of all collected plants (450 species) showed that on account of climatic conditions, 94% of them were flowering in spring, also hemicryptophytes and therophytes possess abundant growth form with 39.6% and 23.5%, respectively. Phytogeographically, Irano-Turanian  elements comprise...

The Conservation Requirements of New Zealand's Nationally Threatened Vascular Plants

Vascular Cryptogam Plants of the Khoshyeilagh Formation, Northern Shahrud, Eastern Alborz Ranges

Fragmentary, indifferently preserved, and of low diversity plant remains occur in basal part of the Khoshyeilagh Formation, northern Shahrud, eastern Alborz Ranges. The oldest hitherto reported from Iran, the remains are essentially assignable to lycophytes and psilophytes. Additionally, spores retrieved from the Khoshyeilagh Formation with reference to available data on spore-plant relation-sh...

Ethnobotanical knowledge of Astragalus spp.: The world’s largest genus of vascular plants

Objective: Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) is the largest genus of vascular plants in the world, that comprises an estimated number of 2900 annual and perennial species. The members of this genus have a broad spectrum of usages (e.g. medicine, food, fodder, fuel, ornamental plants, etc.). Here, we present a review of ethnobotanical applications of different species of Astragalus by various ethnic and ...