Flora of China

中国植物志

• 批准号: 0101991
• 负责人: Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
• 金额: $ 42万
• 依托单位: Missouri Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0101991&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Flora; China

FLORA OF CHINAThe Flora of China (FOC) is a collaborative international project to publish the first English-language treatment of the approximately 30,000 species of vascular plants of China, or about 12% of the world's total. All accounts of FOC are jointly co-authored by non-Chinese (mostly American and European) and Chinese scientists. To date, the FOC project has published seven of the 25 text volumes and four of the 25 illustration volumes. All accounts are downloadable as pdf files and ASCII-delimited text files. The FOC websites at Harvard University Herbaria (HUH) http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china and Missouri Botanical Garden http://www.mobot.org/research/asia.html (MBG) provide dynamic links to distribution maps, illustrations, and other relevant data such as botanical names, bibliographic citations, altitudinal ranges, synonyms, and species status (endemic, native, cultivated, or naturalized). The project has eleven centers: HUH, California Academy of Sciences, Smithsonian Insti-tution, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew), Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), MBG (the coordination center), and the institutes of botany in Beijing, Kunming, Nanjing, and Guangzhou. These institutions complement each other in their excellent libraries and rich collections of Chinese plants and, they exchange material and literature during work on the FOC accounts. The major results expected during this two-year award include the publication of four text volumes treating 44 families and 4,560 (or about 15% of the entire flora). These include important species of food, horticultural, medicinal, and timber values, especially members of the buttercup, rose, orchid, mulberry, and elm families. Work on additional volumes will also be at various stages of editing or near completion, especially on members of the large and taxonomically difficult rhododendron, palm, carrot, and sedge families. In addition, at least three illustration volumes will be published, and the images of the scanned illustrations and finalized legends will be placed on the web and linked to the descriptions and checklist data. Because FOC is the first up-to-date, English-language account on the plants of China, the information included will be of tremendous value to horticulturists, conservationist, botanists, and scientists in related fields. Study of the FOC is important for understanding modern floristic affinities between North America and eastern Asia because species of many genera are found only in these two areas. The fragmentation of China's vegetation makes it all the more important to have accurate, up-to-date information. Consistent efforts will be made during the course of the FOC project to identify threatened and endangered species and those that have not been collected recently. The information included in FOC is extremely important for the proper management of the plant resources of China and for solutions that address environmental issues.

中国植物志（FLORA OF China， FOC）是一个国际合作项目，旨在出版中国约30,000种维管植物（约占世界总数的12%）的第一本英文论著。所有关于FOC的报道都是由非中国（主要是美国和欧洲）和中国科学家共同撰写的。迄今为止，FOC项目已经出版了25本文本卷中的7本和25本插图卷中的4本。所有帐户均可下载为pdf文件和ascii分隔的文本文件。哈佛大学植物标本馆（HUH） http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china和密苏里植物园（MBG）的FOC网站提供了分布图、插图和其他相关数据的动态链接，如植物名称、书目引用、海拔范围、同义词和物种状态（地方性、本地、栽培或归化）。该项目有11个中心：HUH、加州科学院、史密森学会、爱丁堡皇家植物园、英国皇家植物园（邱园）、法国国家自然历史博物馆（巴黎）、MBG（协调中心）以及北京、昆明、南京和广州的植物研究所。这些机构在其优秀的图书馆和丰富的中国植物收藏方面相互补充，并在FOC帐户工作期间交换资料和文献。在这个为期两年的奖项中，预计将取得的主要成果包括出版四本论及44个科和4,560种（约占整个植物区系的15%）的文本卷。这些包括重要的食物、园艺、药用和木材价值的物种，特别是毛茛、玫瑰、兰花、桑树和榆树科的成员。对其他卷的工作也将处于不同的编辑阶段或接近完成，特别是对大型和分类学上困难的杜鹃花，棕榈，胡萝卜和莎草科的成员。此外，将出版至少三本插图卷，并将扫描插图和最终图例的图像放在网络上，并链接到描述和检查表数据。由于FOC是第一本最新的中国植物英文数据库，因此所包含的信息对园艺学家、自然资源保护学家、植物学家和相关领域的科学家具有巨大的价值。由于许多属的物种仅在北美和东亚这两个地区发现，因此研究FOC对了解北美和东亚之间的现代区系亲缘关系具有重要意义。中国植被的碎片化使得获得准确、最新的信息变得更加重要。在FOC项目过程中，将不断努力确定受威胁和濒危物种以及最近未收集的物种。FOC中包含的信息对于中国植物资源的合理管理和环境问题的解决方案至关重要。