Flora Malesiana


Flora Malesiana is a multi-volume flora describing the vascular plants of Malesia, published by the National Herbarium of the Netherlands since 1950. It currently consists of 204 full treatments, covering about 20% of a total of approximately 40,000 species.

Main series

Flora Malesiana is divided into two main series: I. Seed plants and II. Pteridophytes. Later volumes include CD-ROMs with additional multimedia contents such as interactive keys.

Series I. Seed Plants

Currently, the following volumes have been published in Series I. Seed Plants:
Series II. Pteridophytes consists of:
Several taxonomic treatments have been published by ETI Bioinformatics on CD-ROM. These treatments have various multimedia features such as interactive keys, many images, and literature databases. Currently, the following treatments have been published on CD-ROM:
In 2010 an initiative was taken to make all of the contents of Flora Malesiana available though a website, as a so-called e-flora. This initiative was taken because the overall progress of Flora Malesiana in terms of the number of species covered is too slow to make a timely contribution towards sustainability and conservation, and several volumes of Flora Malesiana are out-of-print.

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