A Conspectus of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar

美国、法国和马达加斯加机构的合作研究将产生马达加斯加植物区系的现代概况。 目前有关马达加斯加植物区系的信息不完整和/或分散，不足以满足关键的保护需求。 利用密苏里植物园开发的 TROPICOS 数据库系统，研究人员将编制一份马达加斯加本土和归化的所有维管植物清单。 计算机数据库将包括出版地、公认的同义词、典型化、整体分布以及马达加斯加境内按省份和保护区的分布、习惯和方言名称，所有这些都由尽可能大程度地与纬度和经度相关联的标本证明，因此可直接提供给马达加斯加基于地理信息系统的生物多样性清查和规划中心。 概要数据的获取将涉及： 1) 从每个合作机构的所有已知文献中提取； 2) 类型材料的验证，主要位于巴黎国家自然历史博物馆 (P)，其次位于伦敦邱园 (K) 和大英博物馆 (BM)； 3) 对马达加斯加 Parc de Tsimbazaza (TAN) 和 FO.FI.FA 现有藏品进行详尽的清查和计算机化（以及注释）。塔那那利佛 (TEF) 植物标本室以及密苏里植物园 (MO) 的植物标本室，与模式材料一起，将构成有凭证分布发生的基础。 来自每个合作机构的数据将在 MO 进行整理，来自马达加斯加机构的研究人员将在那里接受植物数据收集和管理及其直接应用于紧迫的保护要求方面的培训。 马达加斯加维管植物区系的完整清单将有助于刺激和促进进一步的分类工作，同时立即提供有关世界上最丰富、最独特和高度威胁的植物群之一当前保护状况的关键数据。

A collaborative research effort by institutions in the U.S., France, and Madagascar will result in a modern conspectus for the flora of Madagascar. Current information on the flora of Madagascar is incomplete and/or dispersed, and inadequate for addressing critical conservation needs. Utilizing the TROPICOS database system developed at the Missouri Botanical Garden, investigators will compile a checklist of all the vascular plants indigenous to and naturalized in Madagascar. The computer database will include place of publication, accepted synonymy, typification, overall distribution and distribution within Madagascar by province and protected area, habit, and vernacular names, all vouchered by specimens tied, to as great a degree as possible, to latitude and longitude, and hence, directly available to a GIS-based biodiversity inventory and planning center in Madagascar. Capture of data for the conspectus will involve: 1) extraction from all known literature at each of the collaborating institutions; 2) verification of type material, principally located at the Museum National d'Historie Naturelle (P) in Paris, and secondarily so at Kew (K) and the British Museum (BM) in London; 3) exhaustive inventory and computerization (and therefore annotation) of the existing collections in Madagascar at the Parc de Tsimbazaza (TAN) and FO.FI.FA. (TEF) herbaria in Antananarivo, as well as those at the Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), which, along with type material, will form the basis of vouchered distributional occurrence. Data from each of the collaborating institutions will be collated at MO, where investigators from the Malagasy institutions will receive training in botanical data collection and management, and its direct application to pressing conservation imperatives. A complete checklist of the vascular flora of Madagascar will serve to stimulate and facilitate further taxonomic work, while immediately providing critical data on the current conservation status of one of the world's richest, most unique, and highly threatened floras.