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J. Aaron Hogan
International Center for Tropical Botany
Florida International University

A place to store information related to tropical plant taxonomy

The diversity of tropical systems is a double-edged sword. Biologically-diverse tropical ecosystems are both scientifically interesting and difficult to study due to high levels of diversity.  Luckily, there have been innumerable taxonomists willing to dedicate themselves to the systematic study of tropical plants.  Here we celebrate some of their work, the plants they have studied, and the tools that will take the science of such study forward into the future. #botanizeOn, my friends! ♠ 

TRY - Plant Trait Database

Quantifying and scaling global plant trait diversity
https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Home.php

SID - Seed Information Database

From the Royal Botanical Garden KEW
http://data.kew.org/sid/

FRED - Fine Root Ecological Database

run by Oak Ridge National Lab
http://roots.ornl.gov/

The Plant List

for checking taxonomic validity of species names
http://www.theplantlist.org

For Plants of El Verde, PR

Fabiolia Areces' Virtual Flora (UPRRP) 
​floraelverde.catec.upr.edu/

Plants of the Eastern Caribbean Database

based on Richard Howard's six volume Flora of the Lesser Antilles
​http://ecflora.cavehill.uwi.edu/

DRYFLOR

Latin American Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Floristic Network
http://www.dryflor.info/

Flora of China

http://foc.eflora.cn/

Phylomatic​

by Cam Webb - for rapid generation of coarse-level phylogenies of plants
http://phylodiversity.net/phylomatic/

PhyloPars

estimation of missing parameter values using phylogeny 
http://www.ibi.vu.nl/programs/phylopars/

Thank good [ness] for wood [samples]

3/10/2017

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A tribute to the Herbario National de Costa Rica.  
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    P.R. 3023: Radiation Effects in a Dacryodes excelsa (Burseraceae) leaf. March 1966. Jaime Ruiz

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    Protium "tree 3 cm DBH, sterile" collected in La Selva by, Alwin Gentry on January 5th, 1993.
    ​To this day, the specimen has not been determined to species. Al would die later that year in a tragic plane accident.

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    Protium pecumiosum Daly (Burseraceae)
    ​Nelson Zamora 6398

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    Protium pitteri D. Porter (Burseraceae) 
    J.F. [Chico] Morales 4074

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    ​Goetzea elegans collected by Bob Muscarella.  click to see the "well-resolved phylogeny of Puerto Rican Trees" 

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    an orchid collected by the Costa Rican botanist Mario Blanco

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    Ticodendron specimen that is one year older than I. Herbaio de la Universidad de Costa Rica. 
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