Useful LinksSwiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany RenzAfter 4 years of intensive work the Swiss Orchid Foundation has scanned 26'000 herbarium specimens, 8'000 slides and 4'700 hand-coloured drawings from the library of Jany Renz. The site also includes the Bibliorchidea of Rudolf Jenny. Index Herbariorum Index Herbariorum is a joint project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) that provides a detailed directory of 3240 public herbaria of the world and the 9869 staff members associated with them. Included in the on-line edition of INDEX HERBARIORUM is information for 3240 herbaria in 165 countries and 9869 staff members associated with these herbaria. Information is available for searching by institution, city, state, acronym, staff member, correspondent, and research specialty. Note since the Index is fully searchable on research specialty, so it also serves as a PLANT SPECIALISTS INDEX. Index Nominum Genericorum The Index Nominum Genericorum (ING) is a collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution that was initiated in 1954 as a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. International Plant Names Index The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI is a dynamic resource, depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical community. IPNI is the product of collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium Tropicos W3TROPICOS provides new and improved access to the International Orchid Hybrid Register Unlike most other groups of plants orchids hybridize widely in nature. For the last 150 years they have been widely crossed in cultivation to produce over 110,000 hybrids. Orchid hybrids can involve up to 20 distinct species from up to nine distinct natural genera. The first hybrid was made in 1854 and since that time the International Registration Authority under the aegis of The Royal Horticultural Society has maintained detailed records. The International Orchid Register can be searched by two methods: - Parentage Search can be used to identify any grexes from particular seed and pollen parents. - Grex Name Search can be used to find the parentage of particular grexes. USDA PLANTS Database The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the
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