The Tropical Forest Resource Group is a consortium of organisations from southern Britain that together form a powerful resource for the provision of information and expertise to project and policy developers in the area of forest management and conservation, agroforestry and related land use. Checklist of Online Plant Distribution and Vegetation Maps . Databases at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK . The data presented here are taken from the publication Authors of Plant Names, ed. GRIN Taxonomy Home Page .
Many species are of economic importance.
The original intent of the index was to bring generic names in all plant groups together in a single list to reveal cases of homonymy. In addition, ING includes bibliographic citations and information about the typification and nomenclatural status of generic names. Indices Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium is made available publicly via the Internet. The project is a joint effort between the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Norton-Brown Herbarium at the University of Maryland. Its purpose is to capture all valid and legitimate extant vascular plants names proposed above the rank of genus.