About IBIS-Flora
IBIS-FLORA is an interactive platform which proffers a humongous database comprising a working checklist of angiosperms of India embodied with species related information such as synonyms, place of publication, regional bibliography, distributional details, other references, photographs and book excerpts.
The database would provide a baseline data for Indian Flora.
Home Page:
Home page comprises of information on Indian flora, and a tab on recent activities by users
On the landing page of IBIS, user will find a search button, specifying ALL and TAXONOMY.
A comprehensive search for entire database will be provided by selecting ALL and specific species profile page will be provided by selecting TAXONOMY
Flora Page:
This Page comprises two major sections-
On left side a Species directory is given wherein the names are arranged in hierarchical manner and the frame on right will provide the species related data.
a. Tree of Taxonomic hierarchy
b. Species Profile
I. Overview
1. Nomenclature
This gives information on the taxonomy i.e. family, genus, place of publication, synonyms etc.
2. Distribution
This gives State wise distributions maps for species available
II. Descriptions
2. IUCN Data
Provides information on IUCN data
3. NCBI Data
Provides information on NCBI data
III. Media
Provides photographs of plant species in the database
IV. Literature
Regional Bibliography
Provides references for the species in the various Indian Floras, books and research articles
Book Excerpts
Provides Morphological description of species available in copyright free literature
Provides extensions for Biodiversity Heritage library and ReFindit
V. Maps
Maps are providing GBIF point location Data
Literature Page
Centralized repository of bibliography available for 1, 65, 000+ citations, covering major publications from India and world across
Media Gallery
Provides photographs