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Glossaries and Guides

  Links to glossaries of botanical terms, and guides to tree and plant identification, and lists of plants in the New World tropics.

We're also compiling our own little glossary, with the equivalent Spanish term.

A mature Mexican Elm (Ulmus mexicana) on Cloudbridge
Drip tips help to drain water off the leaf to promote transpiration and avoid accumulation of fungi. They occur in the lower layers and among the saplings of species of the emergent layer.

Glossaries Source
Botanical terms
Calflora.net
Vascular plants glossary Flora of Australia
Glossary of Botanical Terms The Garden Web
Tree glossary Arbor Day
Multilingual bryological glossary (mosses) Missouri Botanical Garden
The structure of plants

Pteridophyte (ferns) and gymnosperm glossary
Flora of Australia
Lichen glossary
Flora of Australia
Fungi glossary
Flora of Australia
Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary

Glossary of roots of botanical names
The Garden Gate
Tree ID glossary
Michigan State University

Identification Guides
Source
Discover Life ID Guides University of Georgia
Identification guide for trees
Wisconsin
Dichotomous keys for ferns and fern allies
Wisconsin
Wildflowers  Wisconsin
Shrubs  Wisconsin
Vines  Wisconsin
Identifying trees of Michigan
Michigan State University
Dichotomous key for Laurels of Costa Rica
Haber
Picture Guide for Morning Glories of Monteverde
Haber
Dichotomous key for trees of Guanacaste
Enquist & Sullivan
Dichotomous key for Annonaceae of the Venezuelan Guayana Missouri Botanical Garden
Dichotomous key for Bignoniaceae of the Venezuelan Guayana Missouri Botanical Garden
Dichotomous key for Clusiaceae of the Venezuelan Guayana Missouri Botanical Garden
Identification datasets and keys

Flowering Plant Family Identification
Colby

Checklists and Databases
Source
Global plants checklist
IOPI
World Botanical Checklist
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Plants of Costa Rica by Family INBio
Plants of Costa Rica (Atta search engine)
INBio
Flora Mesoamericana Missouri Botanical Garden
Discover Life checklists
University of Georgia
TROPICOS (vascular plants)
Missouri Botanical Garden
MOST (mosses)
Missouri Botanical Garden
Neotropical flora and mycota
New York Botanical Garden
Flora of Nicaragua
Missouri Botanical Garden
Flora of Belize
New York Botanical Garden
Orchids of Belize
Belize Botanic Garden
Species checklists for Belize
biological-diversity.info
Trees of Panama
Smithsonian
Plants of Monteverde, Costa Rica
Haber
Trees of Hacienda Baru, Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Plants of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
ACG Project
Tree Guide: world families
Athenic Systems
Photo database
UC Berkeley
Neotropical plant photos
Field Museum, Chicago
Vascular plant image library
Texas A&M
Checklist of Plants of the Guianas
Smithsonian
Plants of Corcovado, Costa Rica
University of Texas
NYBG checklist projects
New York Botanical Garden
PLANTS database
USDA
Checklists of Paramo plants
Paramos
Mexican plant database (Biotico)
Conabio
Floristic inventory of South Florida
Institute for Regional Conservation
Plants of Bajo Calima, Colombia
Missouri Botanical Garden
Andean Botanical Information System

Flora of Rio Escalerete, Colombia
INVICA, MBG
Plants of Kaieteur Natlional Park, Guyana
Smithsonian
Online Plant Datasets, Central America
Organization for Tropical Studies
Checklists of Lichens
Hamburg University
Fruits from America
CIAT
Parasitic Plants Connection
Southern Illinois University


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