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The ABRS Glossaries provide definitions of terminology used in the Flora of Australia and Fungi of Australia publications and in the Australian Faunal Directory.
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The Australian Marine Algae Name Index (AMANI) is a joint project of the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) and Murdoch University. Its aim is to provide simple access to information on the currently accepted names for Australian marine algae, their synonyms and broad-scale distribution. In addition guidance is given to the major literature, and protologue information is supplied for accepted names.
Searches can be made via hierarchical lists of names or by typing a particular name into a query form. Searches can also be made by distribution, or a combination of distribution and family/division.
AMANI has been compiled by Roberta Cowan and John Huisman, with the assistance of numerous collaborators (see AMANI acknowledgments). ABRS has provided financial support for the project.
The AMANI database includes all the marine macro-algae and some of the marine protists (micro-algae). Other groups will be added progressively as data is assembled. Users are invited to bring to the attention of either ABRS (abrs@environment.gov.au) or the compilers any additions, changes or corrections that might be appropriate for this database.
It is made freely available to the community to facilitate algal research. Your assistance in maintaining and updating AMANI will make it more useful to all.
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Compilation of the Australian Plant Name Index was the first major project entered into by the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS). Between 1973 and 1991 ABRS staff (principally Arthur Chapman) worked to gather together the basic bibliographic information on names that had been applied to the Australian vascular flora. This information included the base name, recombination (if applicable), place(s) of publication, the Type citation, and references to major secondary literature. There are frequent comments on nomenclature. No judgements were made on synonymy. The initial Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) was published in 1991 as four massive volumes containing information on more than 62 000 names, as Numbers 12 to 15 of the ABRS Australian Flora and Fauna Series.
Concurrently, ABRS coordinated the production of the Census of Australian Vascular Plants, which listed the accepted names of the 17 590 species in Australia, with an indication of their distribution by 97 regions. The Census was published as Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11 in 1990.
Subsequently staff of the Herbarium, Australian National Botanic Gardens, and more recently, the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, have combined the Australian Plant Name Index and the Census of Australian Vascular Plants into an interactive database, and have continued to update and improve its utility. The Australian Biological Resources Study is assisting financially with this work.
APNI can be searched by entering names into a search form. The resultant search provides full information on accepted names, synonyms, primary and secondary literature, Type citations and basionyms, and distribution by region.
Users are invited to bring to the attention of either ABRS or the compilers any additions, changes or corrections that might be appropriate for this database.
It is made freely available to the community to facilitate taxonomic research. Your assistance in maintaining and updating APNI will make it more useful to all.
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The Census of Freshwater Algae in Australia is a joint project of the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, and the Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney. Its aim is to provide simple access to information on the currently accepted names for Australian freshwater algae, their synonyms and their broad-scale distribution.
Searches can be made via hierarchical lists of names, or by typing a particular name into a query form. Searches can also be made by distribution, or a combination of distribution and taxon.
The Census has been compiled and edited by Tim Entwisle and Lucy Nairn. It is based on the book Bibliographic Checklist of Non-Marine Algae in Australia by S.A.Day, R.P.Wickham, T.J.Entwisle & P.A.Tyler (Australian Biological Resources Study: Flora of Australia Supplementary Series No. 4, 1995), which should be consulted for a full bibliography of Australian freshwater algal research. ABRS provided financial support for the production of the book, and for its conversion into the present Web-based database. Both the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, and the Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, have provided institutional support for the products and the database is currently housed at the latter institution.
Users are invited to bring to the attention of either ABRS or the compilers any additions, changes or corrections that might be appropriate for this database.
It is made freely available to the community to facilitate algal research. Your assistance in maintaining and updating the Census will make it more useful to all.
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In 1996 ABRS published Checklist of Australian Lichens and Allied Fungi by Rex Filson (ABRS: Flora of Australia Supplementary Series No. 7). This was the fifth in a series of Australian lichen checklists compiled by Rex Filson and Patrick McCarthy in the years since 1983 (previous editions had been published by the National Herbarium of Victoria).
This Checklist provided a full list of accepted names for lichens in Australia, with bibliographic references, a full synonymy, and an indication of distribution by State and Territory. A new and expanded hard copy Catalogue of Australian Lichens has since been published by ABRS (Flora of Australia Supplementary Series No. 19).
This resource is now online.
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Scott & Bradshaw's ‘Australian liverworts (Hepaticae): annotated list of binomials and checklist of published species with bibliography’ (Brunonia 8: 1–171, 1986) documented the names, literature and distribution of Australian liverworts and hornworts up to 1982.
In 2003 ABRS published Catalogue of Australian Liverworts and Hornworts (P.M.McCarthy, Flora of Australia Supplementary Series No. 21). The Catalogue incorporated changes to the diversity, nomenclature and distribution of Australian liverworts and hornworts published since 1982. It included 150 genera and 869 accepted species and infraspecific taxa of liverworts (Hepaticae) and hornworts (Anthocerotae) from the eight States and mainland Territories of Australia.This online version incorporates changes to the flora reported in the literature since late-2003; 149 genera are listed alphabetically, as are the accepted taxa under each generic heading. Synonyms that have been applied to Australian specimens are inserted under the appropriate accepted name. Distribution by State and Territory is indicated.
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The Flora of Australia Online data was first published in the Flora of Australia series, produced by the Australian Biological Resources Study and co-published currently with CSIRO Publishing and previously with the Australian Government Publishing Service.
The Flora of Australia aims to provide, for the first time in over 100 years, a uniform description of the plants of Australia, with identification keys. In addition it illustrates most genera and many species, with distribution maps of all taxa.
The geographical area covered by the main Flora of Australia Online includes the six Australian States, the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory and immediate offshore islands. The data when complete will derive from Flora of Australia Volumes 1 to 48 and 51 onwards.
Flora of Australia Online (Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands) derives its information from Flora of Australia Volume 49. It covers Norfolk Island, Nepean Island, Philip Island, Lord Howe Island and associated islets of the Admiralty Group, Mutton Bird Island, Blackburn (Rabbit) Island and Balls Pyramid.
Flora of Australia Online (Oceanic Islands excluding Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands) derives its information from Flora of Australia Volume 50. It covers Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Macquarie Island, Heard Island and McDonald Island.
A list of families, their contributors, whether they are published in the Flora of Australia book series (and date of publication) and whether they are available in Flora of Australia Online is given at What's published and online, contributors and dates of publication. In addition a limited amount of information for the remaining families and genera (not treated in the 11 volumes currently in the Flora of Australia Online) has also been added to the Flora of Australia Online. The main source for this information is the Families of Flowering Plants of Australia CD ROM, supplemented by the Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens and The Western Australian Flora: a descriptive catalogue. Links to the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) have been included with these additional names, and via APNI links are available to online images in the Australian Plant Image Index (APII) held at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
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This database is based on Fungi of Australia Volumes 2A and 2B, published by the Australian Biological Resources Study.
Volume 2A was compiled by Dr Tom May (Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne) and Dr Alec Wood (School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales). Their collaboration on this work began in 1980, and the volume was published in 1997.
Volume 2B, published in 2003, was compiled by a team at Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, led by Dr Tom May, and consisting of Dr Josephine Milne, Susan Shingles and Rodney Jones.
The Interactive Catalogue of Australian Fungi includes all records from Volume 2A as well as corrections, additions, and changes to the taxonomy of fungi that have occurred subsequent to its publication. The data is current to 2002, being updated by Tom May and Josephine Milne with ABRS funding. For Volume 2B only the nomenclature is currently available online, with full details to be posted in 2004. The database structure was developed by Peter Neish at Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, through a grant from ABRS.
The Interactive Catalogue of Australian Fungi covers more than 9 300 accepted, synonymous and misapplied names for macrofungal groups of the Basidiomycota and Myxomycota. Entries for taxa in selected groups (mainly Agaricales, Boletales, Cortinariales and Russulales) which are associated with Eucalyptus outside of Australia are also included.
Remaining groups of fungi (Ascomycota, Chytridiomycota, Hyphochytriomycota, Oomycota, and microfungal groups of the Basidiomycota and Myxomycota) will be dealt with in further volumes of Fungi of Australia Volume 2. Data on these groups will be available online through the Catalogue following publication.
Data in the Catalogue may be accessed by the following means:
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What's its Name is a collaborative project of the Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian National Botanic Gardens and the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research.
What's its Name provides a checklist of active or current plant names for Australia. The site is progressively being populated with information, but to date does not cover all families.
What's its Name? Proteaceae was also produced as a hard copy checklist, published by ABRS.
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