External websites

Hyperlinks to other resources of Lacistemataceae are incorporated throughout this website. So you the user (or me!) do not have to trawl through my entire website looking for that "needle in a haystack" link, the job has been done for you.

Specific type specimen links are not included. These links are replaced with online collection databases from herbaria holding Lacistemataceae type specimens.

Also to be found here are useful contacts relating to securing land for indigenous peoples, conservation, sustainable usage of forests, policies and legislation relating to Mexico, middle and South America.

A, ECON, AMES, FH, GH, NEBC - Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Alder, D, Baker, N, Wright, HL (2002) MYRLIN: Methods of Yield Regulation with Limited Information, Oxford Forestry Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.

Alex Popovkin "A Russian in Brazil", plant images from the Atlantic Forest, Bahia, Brazil available online at Flickr.

Atlas of our changing environment, Environment for Development, United Nations Environment Programme

B Virtual Herbarium, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

Berlin negatives taken by J.F. Macbride, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A.

Biodiversity Heritage Library. A collaborative project by 10 International recognised scientific institutions to digitise rare books.

BR Herbarium Catalogue, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise, Belgium

Burdet H M (1979) Auxilium ad Botanicorum Graphicem online version, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Geneve, Switzerland. Decryption of botanists handwriting and location of their herbarium specimens.

C herbarium - database of types, Botanical Garden and Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica

Centro Amazónico de Desarrollo Forestal (Amazonic Center for Sustainable Forest Enterprise), Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Center for International Foresty Research (CIFOR), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Bogor, Indonesia

COL - Herbario Nacional Colombiano, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, South America

Commonwealth Forestry Association, U.K.

Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.

Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada

Duke J (date unknown) Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. See also Jim's new website Green Pharmacy

Encyclopedia of Life video on YouTube, more information available at Encyclopedia of Life homepage

Escuela de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Espanol-Ingles / Latin American Spanish-English: botanical terminology translator, Flora Mesoamericana: online version by Missouri Botanic Garden, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Natural History Museum London

European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) , Wageningen, The Netherlands

F herbarium, Botany Collections Database, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A.

Fairtrade Foundation, London, U.K.

Flora Mesoamericana, the online version by Missouri Botanic Garden, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Natural History Museum London

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy

Forest Stewardship Council, Bonn, Germay

Forests and Forestry, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, The World Bank, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

G herbarium, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Ville de Geneve, Switzerland

Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN), World Wide Fund for Nature International, Gland, Switzerland

Global Witness, London, U.K. Investigates and campaigns to prevent natural resource-related conflict and corruption.

Hedges S B, Kumar S (Editors), TimeTree: the timescale of life, Oxford University Press, New York

Heywood V H, Brummitt R K, Culham A, Seberg O (2007) Flowering plants of the world, Kew Books, London

Holmgren P K and Holmgren N H (1998 - continuously updated) Index Herbariorum: a global directory of public herbaria and associated staff, New York Botanical Garden's Virtual Herbarium, New York, U.S.A.

House of Lords (U.K.) Systematics and Taxonomy report 2007-8, Science and Technology Committee, London

Illegal-Logging.info, London, U.K.

Index of Botanical Publications Database, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Index of Botanists Database, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN), International Association for Plant Taxonomist (IAPT), Vienna: Vienna Code 2005

INSDC - International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration

Inside Wood, The InsideWood Working Group, Libraries and the Department of Wood and Paper Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (IMAZON) (Amazon Institute of People and Environment), Belém, Pará, Brasil

International Association for Impact Assessment, Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.A.

International Institute for Environment and Development, London, U.K.

International Labour Organization, Genève, Switzerland. América Latina y el Caribe (Oficina Regional)

The International Plant Names Index (2008)

International Tropical Timber Organization, Yokohoma, Japan

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland

IUCN Publications and Links page, Cambridge, U.K.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Cambridge, U.K.

Brach, A. R. & S. Liu. (1996 onwards) Internet Directory for Botany - [http://www.botany.net/IDB/botany.html].

JSTOR Global Plants Initiative: High resolution type specimens and supporting materials, Ithaka Harbors Inc., New York, U.S.A.

K Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, U.K.

L, U, WAG Herbaria, Collections database, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden, The Netherlands

Martius K F P von (1857) Flora Brasiliensis, Enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum quas suis aloirumque botanicis studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas, Monachii et Lipsiae (Munich & Leipzig), Vol. 4(1): columns 277-288, tables 77-81

LL, UTD, TEX herbaria, Lundell Herbarium, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

MICH herbarium, University of Michigan, MI, U.S.A.

MO herbarium (2008) at www.tropicos.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri, U.S.A.

NY herbarium, The C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium, The New York Botanical Garden, International Plant Science Centre, New York, U.S.A.

Nomenclature Name Checker, IRMNG: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera, OBIS/CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia

P herbarium catalogue, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Planet Bob, International Institute for species exploration, Arizona State University, U.S.A.

Proforest, Oxford, U.K.

REDD.net (a network in forest climate policy to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), London, U.K.

Reveal J R (2009 onwards) Indices Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.

Roots of Botanical Names, Karen Fletcher, The Garden Gate online website

Russell S (1996 onwards) Scott's Botanical Links, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahama, U.S.A.

S herbarium, International Botanical Collections Database, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

Species Link Project, bringing together the collections of natural history museums, herbaria and culture of Brasil into one online open access database.

Stevens P (2001 onwards [and more or less continuously updated since]) Angiosperm Phylogeny Website

Taxacom - Biological Systematics Discussion List, co-managed by Peter Rauch & Jim Beach, hosted at the University of Kansas National History Museum, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

TDWG: Biodiversity Information Standards, hosted by GBIF, Denmark & NHM, London

Tree of Life web project, The University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences & The University of Arizona Library (1995-2005)

Tropenbos International, Wageningen, The Netherlands. To improve tropical forest management for the benefit of people, conservation and sustainable development.

Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBio), The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

US herbarium, Type Specimen Register, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre, United Nations Environment Programme, Cambridge, U.K.

World Rainforest Movement, Montevideo, Uruguay

World Resources Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A.