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      • Welcome to the WFO Plant List API. The WFO Plant List is the consensus list of names used as the taxonomic backbone of the World Flora Online portal. A new version is released every six months. This site provides techies with access to WFO Plant List data.
      list.worldfloraonline.org/
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  2. The Plant List API takes more of a concept based approach because it stores each copy of the taxonomy that is published and maps between them, on the basis of their names, using “replaces” and “isReplacedBy” assertions.

    • Roger Hyam
  3. The WFO PlantList (WfoPlantList) is a collaborative project within the WFO to maintain a consensus nomenclature and classification of plants to act as a taxonomic backbone for the WFO and other projects.

  4. The World Flora Online (WFO) Plant List is the most comprehensive and authoritative list of vascular plants (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and bryophytes (mosses, hornworts and liverworts). It is maintained by the global taxonomic community as a free and open-access resource.

  5. The data can also be accessed via the WFO Plant List API developed by Roger Hyam at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. A name matching facility, WorldFlora, has been developed by Roeland Kindt as an R Package pipeline for checking plant names. Further information is given in the Snapshot Archive.

  6. You don't need fancy libraries to access the GraphQL end point it and it might be the best approach for embedding the WFO Plant List in your project. Here are some examples of how to use the API with plain JavaScript. WFO Plant List API Demos

  7. The WFO Plant List will be updated at least annually with downloads from the WFO Taxonomic Backbone, and provides an interactive, citable list of the world's plants, with archived versions, and data downloads at different taxonomic ranks.

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