The International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI) manages a series of cooperative international projects that aim to create and link databases of plant taxonomic information.

IOPI is a Commission of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and a member of Species 2000

IOPI Projects

• Global Plant Checklist - Check to see what other datasets have been added since your last visit
• Species Plantarum Programme - Find out what parts of the 'Flora of the World' have been published
• Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life - Global Species Datasets (GSDs) in the IOPI GPC are available here, too

General Botanical Information

• The Internet Directory for Botany
• WWW Virtual Library: Botany - Plant Biology
• W3MOST - global mosses checklist
• Algaebase - global algal checklist

About IOPI

• IOPI general information
• IOPI General Meetings
• IOPI membership, constitution and committees

Data standards and scientific access to data

• Proposed regulation of access to databases - Intellectual Property issues
• The Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG)

Biodiversity sites

• The Global Taxonomy Initiative
• The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• The Convention on Biological Diversity
• BioNET-INTERNATIONAL