World Flora Online is the international initiative to achieve Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and provides a global overview of the diversity of plant species. It is the essential tool for conservation planners, policymakers and practitioners at all levels.
This map graph shows the current approximate coverage of species, derived from data supplied by World Checklist of Vascular Plants and the associated Floras, for level two regions of World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Hover over regions for further information.
Descriptions of
38%
of 350,510 accepted
species included
Why the WFO?
In this short video, Peter Wyse Jackson gives the background and rational of the WFO.
Recent WFO Stories
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National Biodiversity Centre, Bhutan (NBC) joins the WFO family as our 50th member.
The NBC joins the 49 other Consortium Members that are the World Flora Online.
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The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) joins the WFO family.
The IAPT joins the 45 other Consortium Members that are the World Flora Online.
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The International Compositae Alliance as the Taxonomic Expert Network for Asteraceae.
Six months after the official launch of the Global Compositae Database through the Aphia infrastructure, its content is now being shared with the World Flora Online. The collaboration between these two initiatives has become official through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).