World Flora Online Plant List June 2023

A global consensus classification of vascular plants and bryophytes used as the taxonomic backbone for the World Flora Online (WFO) portal (http://www.worldfloraonline.org) and the WFO Plant List (https://wfoplantlist.org). Initiated in 2012, WFO has developed to represent a comprehensive knowledge base on the world’s plant species. Comprising over 50 botanical institutions and organisations worldwide, the WFO Consortium recognizes the need for the synthesis of botanical knowledge that has been generated through more than 260 years of botanical exploration, taxonomic and, more recently, phylogenetic research throughout the world. Endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity, WFO supports the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (https://www.plants2020.net) and the Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework. WFO has become a first-ever global source of information on the world’s plant diversity supported by the international taxonomic community. At the heart of the WFO is a checklist which aims to provide the most up to date source of scientific plant names and their synonyms compiled. The WFO checklist is curated, moderated and updated by an expert and specialist-based global community (Taxonomic Expert Networks ,TENs) covering a taxonomic group. The initial data ingestion into the WFO checklist was undertaken in 2015 using data from The Plant List Version 1.1 (TPL, September 2013). The list of datasets contributing to TPL is given here: https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors. New taxonomic names and data updates are regularly incorporated into WFO from nomenclators: International Plant Name Index (IPNI, https://www.ipni.org) for vascular plants, and Tropicos (https://www.tropicos.org) for bryophytes. Classification and nomenclatural updates have been incorporated from WFO TENs, and classification data for taxonomic groups not yet covered by a TEN have been incorporated from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP, https://wcvp.science.kew.org), facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. New versions of this global consensus classification are released every six months, in June and December. Detail of the changes since December 2022, incorporated this June 2023 release, are given here: https://about.worldfloraonline.org/june-2023-release. This data repository includes the following files: wfo_plantlist_2023-06.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_2023-06.json.zip 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_2023-06.sql.gz This is the complete production database (minus logging data and API keys) as a MySQL backup file. It can be restored directly to a MySQL 5.7 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 718 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. _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

本数据集为维管植物（vascular plants）与苔藓植物（bryophytes）的全球共识分类系统，作为世界植物在线（World Flora Online, WFO）门户（http://www.worldfloraonline.org）及WFO植物名录（https://wfoplantlist.org）的分类学核心框架。

WFO于2012年启动，现已发展为涵盖全球植物物种的综合性知识库。WFO联盟由全球50余家植物学机构与组织组成，其认识到需整合全球260余年植物探索、分类学及近期系统发育（phylogenetic）研究所产生的植物学知识。该项目获《生物多样性公约》认可，支持《全球植物保护战略》（https://www.plants2020.net）及《蒙特利尔-昆明全球生物多样性框架》。WFO现已成为由国际分类学界支持的全球首个植物多样性权威信息源。

WFO的核心为一份分类名录，旨在提供经汇编的最新植物学名及其异名权威来源。该名录由覆盖特定分类类群的专家主导的全球社区（分类学专家网络，Taxonomic Expert Networks, TENs）进行管理、审核与更新。WFO名录的初始数据收录工作于2015年完成，数据源自2013年9月发布的《植物名录1.1版》（The Plant List Version 1.1, TPL）。TPL的贡献数据集列表可查阅：https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors。

WFO会定期从以下命名索引库纳入新的分类学名称与数据更新：针对维管植物的国际植物名称索引（International Plant Name Index, IPNI, https://www.ipni.org），以及针对苔藓植物的Tropicos数据库（https://www.tropicos.org）。分类学与命名更新由WFO TENs提供；对于尚未有TEN覆盖的分类类群，其分类数据由英国皇家植物园邱园（Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew）协助维护的《维管植物世界名录》（World Checklist of Vascular Plants, WCVP, https://wcvp.science.kew.org）提供。该全球共识分类系统每半年发布一次新版本，分别于每年6月与12月推出。本次2023年6月发布版纳入了2022年12月以来的所有变更详情，相关说明可查阅：https://about.worldfloraonline.org/june-2023-release。

本数据仓库包含以下文件：
1. wfo_plantlist_2023-06.zip：WFO植物名录的生命名录数据套件（Catalogue of Life Data Package），为该名录符合行业标准的最详实表达形式。
2. plant_list_2023-06.json.zip：WFO植物名录的JSON格式版本，专为直接导入无模式（schemaless）的SOLR索引实例设计，用于支撑WFO植物名录API（https://list.worldfloraonline.org），该API同时为WFO门户中的植物名录页面提供支持。若需本地只读版名录而非调用API，推荐使用此文件。
3. plant_list_2023-06.sql.gz：完整的生产环境MySQL备份文件（不含日志数据与API密钥），若需SQL格式的名录，可直接将其导入MySQL 5.7及以上版本的数据库实例。
4. ipni_to_wfo.csv.gz：本文件将所有追踪的IPNI标识符映射至对应的WFO标识符。
5. families_dwc.tar.gz：包含718个已确认科的达尔文核心归档（Darwin Core Archive, DwC）单文件包，若需单个科的DwC格式文件且无需加载完整名录，可下载并解压此文件。科与属级文件亦可通过WFO门户下载。
6. _DwC_backbone_R.zip：单份达尔文核心归档文件，包含所有未废弃的名称与类群，适用于现有R语言工具包。
7. _uber.zip：单份达尔文核心归档文件，包含所有名称与类群（含已废弃的条目），并附带若干额外列。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集是世界植物在线（WFO）2023年6月发布的全球植物列表，提供了一个涵盖维管植物和苔藓植物的共识分类系统，作为WFO门户的分类主干。它由国际植物学社区共同维护，每六个月更新一次，旨在支持生物多样性保护和植物学研究，并包含多种数据格式以供不同应用场景使用。