This is a gateway to some outstanding work in the field of plant names which could only have been carried out with the help of the World Wide Web. We have used those as references but we cannot carry all their information on our own site. This is the idea of a W.W.W. distributed resource. There are groups of plants that have presented challenges to both experts and lay people for decades.
Much confusion is reflected in the names in almost any language that one cares to study.
Today the list of genera treated is much longer and growing every year. Fortunately not all species are in a state of botanical confusion. Many words collected from web sites or suggested by people browsing our pages have been added. Needless to say, none of those lists is near completion. Not enough editing has been done yet.