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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> <title>Browse — The Plant List</title> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/opensearch.xml" title="The Plant List" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="/img/jquery-1.4.3.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/img/jquery.tablesorter.min.js"></script>  <script type="text/javascript" src="/img/bsn.AutoSuggest_2.1.3.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/img/tpl.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/img/tpl.css"/>    </head> <body> <header> <h1><a href="/1/">The Plant List — A working list for all plant species</a></h1> <form id="headerSearchForm" action="/tpl/search" method="get"> <input id="q" name="q" placeholder="Enter a genus or genus and species" type="search" value="" size="40"/> <input type="submit" value="Search" /> </form> </header> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="/1/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About</a></li> <li><a class="current">Browse</a></li> <li><a href="/statistics/">Statistics</a></li> <li><a href="/feedback/">Feedback</a></li> <li><a href="/help/">How to use this site</a></li> </ul> </nav> <div id="container"> <div id="logo"> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.cbd.int/2010/"><img src="/img/logo-2010.gif" alt="2010 International Year of Biodiversity"/></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.kew.org/"><img src="/img/logo-kew.gif" alt="Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew"/></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.mobot.org/"><img src="/img/logo-missouri.gif" alt="Missouri Botanical Garden"/></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.compositae.org/checklist/"><img src="/img/logo-tica.gif" alt="International Compositae Alliance"/></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ildis.org/"><img src="/img/logo-ildis.gif" alt="ILDIS"/></a></li> <li><a href="http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/iopi/iopihome.htm"><img src="/img/logo-iopi.png" alt="IOPI"/></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nybg.org/"><img src="/img/logo-nybg.gif" alt="New York Botanic Garden"/></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ipni.org/"><img src="/img/logo-ipni.gif" alt="International Plant Names Index"/></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cbd.int/"><img src="/img/logo-cbd.gif" alt="Convention on Biological Diversity"/></a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="columns"> <section id="warnVersion"> <p><strong>⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.</strong></p> <p>You should refer instead to <a href="/">the current version of The Plant List</a>.</p> </section> <section id="overview"> <p> <cite>The Plant List</cite> contains a working list of plants of the world. The species included are grouped into 16,167 genera, 620 families and 4 major groups. </p> <p> You can use the Browse function to explore the taxonomic hierarchy embedded within <cite>The Plant List</cite>. </p> <p> Either work down the taxonomic hierarchy from <strong>Major Group</strong> (to find out which Families belong to each), to <strong>Family</strong> (to work out which Genera belong to each) or <strong>Genus</strong> (to find out which Species belong to each). </p> <p> Or from within the taxonomic hierarchy move upwards so as to discover, for example, to which Family a particular Genus belongs. </p> <p> Click on the major plant group of interest to explore the taxonomic hierarchy embedded within <cite>The Plant List</cite>. </p> </section> <section id="majorgroups"> <h2 id="names">The Major Groups</h2> <ul id="nametree"> <li class="a"><a href="/browse/A/">Flowering plants <i class="majorgroup">Angiosperms</i></a></li> <li class="g"><a href="/browse/G/">Conifers, cycads and allies <i class="majorgroup">Gymnosperms</i></a></li> <li class="p"><a href="/browse/P/">Ferns and fern allies <i class="majorgroup">Pteridophytes</i></a></li> <li class="b"><a href="/browse/B/">Mosses and liverworts <i class="majorgroup">Bryophytes</i></a></li> </ul> </section> <section> <p class="clear">Alternatively you can browse the entire contents of <cite>The Plant List</cite> by</p> <ul> <li><a href="./-/">Family</a> or</li> <li><a href="./-/-/">Genus</a></li> </ul> <p>View <strong><a href="/statistics/">statistics</a></strong> summarising the contents of <cite>The Plant List</cite>.</p> </section> </div> </div> <footer> <p> © The Plant List 2010 — <a rel="license" href="/terms/">Terms and Conditions</a> — <a href="/cite/">How to Cite</a> </p> </footer> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://include.reinvigorate.net/re_.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> try { reinvigorate.track("qqd10-7tcw301jmk"); } catch(err) {} </script> </body> </html>

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