World Flora Online Checklist, December 2022

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 version 2.0 (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 June 2022, incorporated this December 2022 release, are given here: https://about.worldfloraonline.org/december-2022-release This data repository includes the following files: wfo_plantlist_2022-12.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_2022-12.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_2022-12.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）的分类学主干。 该系统于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（WFO Consortium）由全球50余家植物学机构与组织组成，其认识到亟需整合全球260余年植物考察、分类学及近期系统发育研究所产生的植物学知识。 本项目获《生物多样性公约》（Convention on Biological Diversity）认可，支持《全球植物保护战略》（Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, https://www.plants2020.net）及《蒙特利尔-昆明全球生物多样性框架》。WFO现已成为国际分类学界支持的全球首个植物多样性信息源。 WFO的核心为一份名录，旨在提供经过汇编的最新科学植物名称及其异名。WFO名录由覆盖特定分类类群的专家型全球社区——分类学专家网络（Taxonomic Expert Networks, TENs）进行管理、审核与更新。 WFO名录的初始数据导入工作于2015年完成，数据来源于《植物名录1.1版》（The Plant List Version 1.1, TPL, 2013年9月）。TPL的贡献数据集列表可参见：https://about.worldfloraonline.org/the-plantlist-data-contributors。 WFO会定期从命名数据库中纳入新的分类学名称与数据更新：维管植物相关数据来源于国际植物名称索引（International Plant Name Index, IPNI, https://www.ipni.org），苔藓植物相关数据来源于Tropicos（https://www.tropicos.org）。分类学与命名更新由WFO TENs提供，尚未有TEN覆盖的分类类群的分类数据，则由英国皇家植物园（Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew）牵头编制的《世界维管植物名录2.0版》（World Checklist of Vascular Plants version 2.0, WCVP, https://wcvp.science.kew.org）提供。 该全球共识分类系统每半年（6月与12月）发布一次新版本。2022年12月发布版所纳入的2022年6月以来的更新详情可参见：https://about.worldfloraonline.org/december-2022-release。 本数据仓库包含以下文件： wfo_plantlist_2022-12.zip：WFO植物名录的全球生物物种名录（Catalogue of Life）数据套件，为本名录最贴合标准规范的完整表达形式。 plant_list_2022-12.json.zip：WFO植物名录的JSON格式版本，专为直接导入无模式SOLR索引实例而设计，用于驱动WFO植物名录API（https://list.worldfloraonline.org），进而支撑门户中的WFO植物名录。若需本地只读版名录而非调用API，推荐使用该文件。 plant_list_2022-12.sql.gz：完整的生产数据库（不含日志数据与API密钥）的MySQL备份文件，若需SQL格式的名录，可直接导入MySQL 5.7及更高版本的实例中。 ipni_to_wfo.csv.gz：用于将本项目所追踪的所有IPNI标识符映射至对应WFO标识符的文件。 families_dwc.tar.gz：718个已确认科的达尔文核心归档（Darwin Core Archive, DwC）单文件集合。若需单个科的DwC格式文件且无法加载完整名录，可下载并解压该文件。科与属级文件也可通过门户下载。 _DwC_backbone_R.zip：单份达尔文核心归档文件，包含非废弃名称与分类单元，适配现有R包使用。 _uber.zip：单份达尔文核心归档文件，包含所有名称与分类单元（含废弃条目）及若干附加列。