World Flora Online Plant List December 2024

The consensus taxonomy of plants used as the backbone for the World
Flora Online (WFO) portal, and issued as editions of the WFO Plant
List.

New versions of this checklist are released every six months in June and December: this is release
2024-12.

The history of data development for the WFO taxonomic backbone is given on the WFO Plant List background page. Taxonomic names are incorporated into WFO from
nomenclators International Plant Name Index (IPNI) for vascular plants, and Tropicos for bryophytes. Taxonomic and nomenclatural updates are
incorporated from the WFO's Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs)
and
the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), facilitated by
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

This data repository includes the following files:

wfo_plantlist_2024-12.zip The Catalogue of Life Data Package of the WFO Plant List. This is the
most expressive standards based form of the list.

plant_list_2024-12.json.gz JSON formatted version of the WFO Plant List. This has been
designed for direct import into a schemaless instance of a SOLR index and is used to drive the WFO Plant List
API (https://list.worldfloraonline.org) which in turn drives the
WFO Plant List in the portal. This is recommended if you want a local, read only version of the list rather than
use the API.

plant_list_2024-12.sql.gz This is the complete production database (minus API
keys) as a MySQL backup file. It can be restored directly to a MySQL 8.0 or later instance if you require the
list in SQL format.

ipni_to_wfo.csv.gz A file mapping all the IPNI IDs we track to their associated WFO IDs.

families_dwc.tar.gz Individual Darwin Core Archive files for each of 721 recognized families.
If you want a single family in DwC but can't load the whole list download and expand this file. Family and
genus files are also available for download through the portal. These files exclude deprecated names.

_DwC_backbone_R.zip A single Darwin Core Archive file containing non deprecated names and taxa
for use in the existing R package.

_uber.zip A single Darwin Core Archive file containing all names and taxa even those that are
deprecated along with some extra columns