If you want to check the reliability of several plant lists - ranging from dozen plants within a single community to an entire biogeographical domain - and organize them, Plantminer is the right tool for you. Plantminer searchs for orders, families, authors, synonyms and make sure your final list is following the latest APG classification. It is especially useful for researchers working with community ecology, macroecology, meta-analysis, and conservation biology that have to deal with several lists (most from different sources), which often generates numerous issues, like synonymy problems, wrongly spelled names, and duplicated entries. Plantminer usage is completely free of charge!

How to use it

You may send a list of plant species and have them back by email or send calls directly to our API interface. Examples:

Submitted list
Returned list (tab-delimited)
Returned list (Phylomatic)

Please refer to our help page for detailed instructions.

How to cite it

If you use Plantminer, please cite us in the following way:

Carvalho, G.H, Cianciaruso, M.V, Batalha, M.A. 2010. Plantminer: a web tool for checking and gathering plant species taxonomic information. http://www.plantminer.com. Environmental Modelling and Software 25: 815-816.

You should also acknowledge the source of the data:

World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Tropicos
IPNI

Testimonials

"I found Plantminer after reading up on some of your work. What an amazing resource! I've already submitted a list of species to it, and can't wait to see the product. You and your colleagues have done us all a great service here, thank you."

Steven Vamosi
University of Calgary