Flora of North America

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The Flora of North America North of Mexico on the flora of North America is a multi-volume work that has been published continuously since 1993. The editor is the Flora of North America Editorial Committee.

The complete work should comprise 30 volumes, in 2011 16 volumes have already been published. Over 800 authors compile knowledge of all plants north of Mexico , including St. Pierre and Miquelon and Greenland . A web-based working platform, the FNA Internet Information Service (FNA IIS), is used. Several plant families are processed per band. In addition to the printed version, all information is published verbatim on the Internet. Once completed, the project will have cataloged more than 20,000 vascular plants and mosses , about 7% of the total number of species in the world.

Project history

As early as 1964, North American botanists, spurred on by the announcement that Volume 1 of Flora Europaea was about to be published, saw the need for a comprehensive botanical project for North America. In August 1964, the Council of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) appointed a committee to examine the feasibility of a Flora of North America . Under the chairmanship of Robert Folger Thorne , the committee of about 25 interested botanists met in Washington, DC in May 1966 and came to the conclusion that the creation of the Flora of North America would be desirable and feasible. The response to Thorne's request from many other botanists to get involved in the project was positive.

After six years of planning, the project was to start in autumn 1972. The National Science Foundation (NSF) made its support dependent on the willingness of the Smithsonian Institution to increase funding from year to year. After scrutiny, the Smithsonian Institution decided that it was unwilling to make such a guarantee unless Congress, in turn, guaranteed to support the institution each year. The National Science Foundation then withdrew its support and the project was suspended in the summer of 1973. Attempts to revive the project were unsuccessful.

In the spring of 1982, 22 botanists from across the United States and Canada met at the Missouri Botanical Garden to discuss a proposal from the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and the Carnegie Museum to create the Flora of North America . In the same year the Canadian Botanical Association / L'Association Botanique du Canada passed a resolution in support of the project. At its annual meeting in August 1983, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists passed a resolution reaffirming its commitment to the creation of such a work. After further funds were added from third parties between 1983 and 1987, the project was unreservedly supported by the participating institutions.

Content

Various data are recorded for each plant species and compared and supplemented by an international team with existing literature and herbaria . The following information is recorded, for example:

Published volumes

  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 1: Introduction. Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-505713-9 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 2: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms. Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-508242-7 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 3: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 1997, ISBN 0-19-511246-6 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 4: Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York u. a. 2003, ISBN 0-19-517389-9 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 5: Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York u. a. 2005, ISBN 0-19-522211-3 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 6: Magnoliophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droserceae. Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-534027-3 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-531822-7 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 8: Paeoniaceae to Ericaceae. Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-534026-6 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae (in part): Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York u. a. 2006, ISBN 0-19-530563-9 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae (in part): Asteraceae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York u. a. 2006, ISBN 0-19-530564-7 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae (in part): Asteraceae, part 3. Oxford University Press, New York u. a. 2006, ISBN 0-19-530565-5 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 22: Magnoliophyta: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae (in part), and Zingiberidae. Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2000, ISBN 0-19-513729-9 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 23: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2002, ISBN 0-19-515207-7 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 24: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae (part 1). Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-531071-9 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 25: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae (part 2). Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2003, ISBN 0-19-516748-1 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 26: Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales. Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2002, ISBN 0-19-515208-5 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 27: Bryophyta, Part 1. Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 0-19-531823-4 .
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico , Volume 28: Bryophyta, Part 2. Oxford University Press, New York a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-020275-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Alfredo Sánchez, John L. Schnase, Kay L. Tomlinson, Mark A. Spasser: Managing Cognitive Overload in the Flora of North America Project. hicss, vol. 2, pp.296, Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 2, 1998 ( Online )
  2. ^ Online directory , last accessed on April 10, 2011
  3. ↑ a b Introduction on fna.org , last accessed on April 10, 2011
  4. ^ Nancy R. Morin, Richard W. Spellenberg: Flora of North America - History. ( Online )

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