Scientific and Technical Services, databases

CANBR and Gardens databases

Australian plant names

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) - SEARCH - historical listing of scientific names used for Australian vascular plants.
Australian Plant Census (APC) - currently accepted scientific names for Australian vascular plants (taxa only).
What's Its Name? (WIN)
Australian Orchid Name Index (AONI) [PDF 1,699 KB] and Checklist [PDF 219 KB]
Registered cultivars of Australian native plants (ACRA)
Search for cultivar names in the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
Common Names of Australian Plants
Catalogue of Mosses of Australia and its External Territories

Herbarium specimen data

Australian National Herbarium Specimen Information Register (ANHSIR)
- (for access to data - contact anhsirquery@anbg.gov.au with your project details).
Locality Census Tool for specimens in ANHSIR
Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH) SEARCH

Images of Australian Plants

Australian Plant Image Index (full) or search for digitised images only
Search by plant family

Living plants in Australian botanic gardens

Living Plants in the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)
Past and present plants grown in the ANBG
ANBG Gardens Sections and their current plants
In Flower this Week (ANBG)
Census of Plants in Australia's major Botanic Gardens

Other CANBR and ANBG plant name facilities

SpeciesLinks - a one-stop-shop linking to a range of botanical databases, just enter your plant name.
Integrated Biodiversity Information System - IBIS - links to all its interfaces

Flora of Australia online (ABRS) Australian Biological Resources Study

Flora of Australia excluding Australia's Oceanic Islands (which families are on-line?)

Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands

Oceanic Islands excluding Norfolk and Lord Howe Island

Department of the Environment

Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) resources

Threatened species database

Weeds Australia database

Other databases