Category talk:PROSEA

The official PROSEA site has long been closed. It reopened in 2020, but always partially. It seems now (2022) to have disappeared. It has been duplicated at PROTA4U and here on Pl@ntUse.

Pages have been uploaded by a bot from the texts sent to the publisher. They are later revised manually. The result is that some errors may have gone unnoticed. Such errors arise from the fact that formats change somewhat from one book to the other, and that special codes have not always been interpreted correctly (Unicode did not exist at that time).

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Many pages deal with whole genera. Redirect pages (appearing in italics) allow to detail the species included in a genus treatment.

In a first phase, only texts have been uploaded.

In a second phase, pages are formatted ; synonyms and description are organized in bulletted paragraphs ; links to and from the species pages (English and French) are added. So, when you see "PROSEA on Pl@ntUse" or "PROSEA sur Pl@ntUse", it means that there exists a PROSEA page. Linedrawings are integrated with the captions and the sources of illustration. Some errors are corrected (spaces before or after parenthesis, codes for Greek letters...). Literature sources appearing as numbers are added.

Many plants have changed scientific name. We maintain the pages with the original name. But we create a redirect page, allowing to query PROSEA with the newly accepted name.

The links to the official PROSEA site were deleted, as many pages are missing, and the site changed its address.

Several species and genera have been treated in two use groups. Unlike PROTA, where information was aggregated into a unique text, PROSEA texts are separate. We keep such "double pages" separate on Pl@ntUse, with titles indicating the book they come from. E.g. Diospyros blancoi (PROSEA Fruits) and Diospyros blancoi (PROSEA Timbers). Only when pages are very short, we merge both texts into one page.

Later on, we will consider the insertion of wood anatomy photos, if available. Wood properties are presented as a big table in the book. Its inclusion poses problems we will only later consider. Michel Chauvet (talk) 17:42, 13 February 2016 (CET).

Uploaded volumes

Uploaded volumes (text only) and status:

• Algae. Texts cleaned. All linedrawings uploaded, but numbers are lacking. Michel Chauvet (talk) 17:38, 24 April 2016 (CEST).
• Auxiliary plants. All texts uploaded and cleaned. Links and Literature added. Drawings are missing. Tables in Introduction are missing. Michel Chauvet (talk) 12:24, 14 April 2022 (CEST).
• Bamboos.
• Carbohydrates. All texts uploaded. Michel Chauvet (talk) 18:33, 5 June 2016 (CEST).
• Cereals. Texts cleaned. Michel Chauvet (talk) 10:44, 29 April 2016 (CEST).
• Dyes and tannins. Texts cleaned. Michel Chauvet (talk) 21:40, 5 March 2016 (CET).
• Essential oils. Texts cleaned. Illustrations and captions added. Numbers of references replaced. Composition of essential-oil and Physical properties added. Michel Chauvet (talk) 21:33, 7 March 2021 (CET).
• Exudates.
• Ferns and allies.
• Fibres. All texts uploaded. Michel Chauvet (talk) 18:21, 13 June 2016 (CEST).
• Forages.
• Fruits and nuts. Texts cleaned. Michel Chauvet (talk) 21:20, 15 February 2016 (CET).
• Medicinal plants-1. Work totally done. Michel Chauvet (talk) 18:52, 21 September 2022 (CEST).
• Medicinal plants-2. Ailanthus cleaned. Double pages uploaded Michel Chauvet (talk) 12:22, 29 March 2016 (CEST).
• Medicinal plants-3. Double pages uploaded. All texts uploaded. Michel Chauvet (talk) 22:20, 12 April 2016 (CEST).
• Oils and fats. All texts uploaded. Michel Chauvet (talk) 18:33, 5 June 2016 (CEST).
• Pulses. Texts cleaned. Michel Chauvet (talk) 21:38, 11 April 2016 (CEST).
• Rattans.
• Spices. Texts cleaned. Introduction cleaned, but tables are lacking. Images uploaded up to Illicium Michel Chauvet (talk) 18:30, 11 January 2016 (CET).
• Stimulants. All texts uploaded. Michel Chauvet (talk) 21:38, 15 May 2016 (CEST).
• Timbers-1. All texts cleaned. Michel Chauvet (talk) 22:36, 13 August 2017 (CEST).
• Timbers-2.
• Timbers-3.
• Vegetables. Texts cleaned. Michel Chauvet (talk) 21:31, 1 May 2016 (CEST).

Timbers and Medicinals

The Timbers and Medicinals volumes offer a distinct structure. All genera (in Timbers) and most of them (in Medicinals) are described in a page, after which small subpages detail "selected species". The information about a species has to be found both in the genus and the species statement.

This was a good solution for a book, but presents some difficulties for a database. To facilitate consultation, we introduced the following procedure:

• At the end of a genus page, we put a list of the "selected species", which acts as a set of links to the relevant species statements.
• Each species is given a separate page, with at the end a link to the Main genus page.

See Afzelia and Agathis as examples.

In the species pages, references appear as numbers, which refer to a list. Such numbers will be changed into the right references, but we will do that at a later stage, as it is time consuming. Michel Chauvet (talk) 11:40, 10 February 2016 (CET).