Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
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Welcome to Plants of the World Online (POWO) which is an international collaborative programme that has as a primary aim to make available digitized data of the world’s flora gathered from the past 250 years of botanical exploration and research. POWO also aims to make freely available electronic...
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Kew is a global resource for plant and fungal knowledge. Our unique combination of extensive collections, databases, scientific expertise and global partnerships gives us a leading role in facilitating access to fundamental plant and fungal information. The core purpose of our science stems from...
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SID is a compilation of seed biological trait data from the MSBP's own collections and from other published and unpublished sources. Its primary purpose is as an internal source of a variety of seed biological information; for use in large scale analysis and decision support for seed conservation...
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This species is accepted, and its native range is Comoros, Madagascar, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to Pacific, N. Australia. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, has environmental uses and social uses, as animal food, a poison and a medicine and for fuel and food.
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Thunbergia laurifoliais a vigorous climber from Asia. The generic nameThunbergiacommemorates Swedish physician and botanist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), who was a protégé of the great Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus. The specific epithetlaurifoliarefers to its laurel-shaped leaves.
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Pyrostegia venustais a liana (a vigorous, woody climber) that makes a beautiful ornamental plant with cascades of orange flowers. It is commonly grown in tropical and subtropical areas, as well as in mild Mediterranean climates. The plants form dense masses, growing up trees, on walls or over...
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Bitterleaf Tree Chinese:展枝斑鸠菊zhan zhi ban jiu ju,Thai:หนานเฉาเหวยnan chao woei, This species is accepted, and its native range is E. Himalaya to China (Yunnan, Guizhou). Synonyms: Cacalia extensaKuntze Conyza extensaWall. Eupatorium rufumSpreng. ex DC. Gymnanthemum cylindriceps(C.B.Clarke) H.Rob....
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MPNS has built upon Kew’s existing plant name resources to create an authoritative database of medicinal plants and their names.Upto date taxonomy is linked to pharmaceutical, drug, common and scientific names as they are used in the relevant literature and legislation.The MPNS Resource currently...