Help:Expanding the species list

For the launching of this site, we were able to compile the lists of species elaborated by PROSEA, PROTA and the New World Fruit Database. We reached a number of ca. 15200 species. Those lists are supposed to be comprehensive in their domain, and up-to-date as far as nomenclature is concerned.

Once done, a robot could create as many "species pages", adding automatically links to several databases. This makes things easier for the common collaborator, who can then edit pages without having to create them.

One of the tasks to be done is to compile lists for other regions of the world. The reference to each book or database could then be added automatically by a robot, and we could eventually be able to give rough numbers of plants which are used worldwide, something which has never been achieved. But putting each species in the relevant use categories, we could also say how many plants are used as timber, pulse, spice...

Thank you for mentioning books we have missed or giving us indexes of scientific names.

The list of books and references should best be put on the pages of inventories: Useful plants.