A Conspectus of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar

一项由美国机构合作的研究成果， 法国和马达加斯加将导致一个现代的概论， 马达加斯加的植物群。 植物区系现状 马达加斯加是不完整和/或分散的，不足以 满足重要的保护需求。 利用TROPICOS 在密苏里州植物园开发的数据库系统， 研究人员将编制一份清单， 原产于马达加斯加并已归化。 计算机数据库 将包括出版地，公认的同义词，类型， 总体分布和马达加斯加各省的分布 和保护区，习惯，和本地名称，所有担保人 标本绑，以尽可能大的程度，以纬度和 经度，因此，直接提供给一个基于GIS的 马达加斯加的生物多样性清单和规划中心。 捕获 数据的概要将涉及：1）从所有 每个合作机构的已知文献; 2） 类型材料的验证，主要位于博物馆 巴黎的国家自然史（P），其次是在 伦敦的基尤（K）和大英博物馆（BM 清单和计算机化（从而也包括注释） 马达加斯加的Tsimbazaza公园（TAN）现有藏品 和FO. FI. FA。(TEF)塔那那利佛的植物标本馆，以及 密苏里州植物园（MO），它沿着的是类型 材料，将形成凭证分配的基础 发生。 每个合作机构提供的数据将 在MO进行整理，来自马达加斯加的调查人员 机构将接受植物学数据收集方面的培训， 管理，并直接应用于紧迫的保护 必要条件 一个完整的清单维管植物群的 马达加斯加将有助于刺激和促进进一步的分类 工作，同时立即提供有关当前 世界上最丰富，最独特， 受到严重威胁的植物群

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.