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Useful info

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Sources

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There's not really "a" database. WCSP [1] , POWO [2], and GBIF are usually up-to-date for the taxa they cover, at least in my experience. The Plant List is getting old now and is not going to be updated, I understand. GRIN Taxonomy is usually reliable for native North American plants, although you need to check the date on which the entry was updated. Tropicos is good for nomenclature issues, but doesn't focus on "accepting" names, so its accepted names are not always the latest or best supported (again in my experience). For Australian plants, APC is regularly updated.

Category Flora of India (region)

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Hi Peter, what's the policy for adding this Category:Flora of India (region) to an article? All taxa or endemic only? AshLin (talk) 11:35, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Well, the policy is supposed to be as explained at Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions#Using the categorization hierarchy. So all species where no higher level WGSRPD category is appropriate (hence not just endemics), and endemic genera, families, etc. However, I've recently realized that I'd forgotten the restriction on genera, and have been adding the full distribution categories to genus articles I created.
As a side issue, there's always a problem with categories where the WGSRPD region doesn't match the ordinary use of the word the WGSRPD uses. As you will doubtless have noticed, POWO uses the WSGRPD name without qualification. So when for Mucuna sanjappae, POWO says "India", it doesn't mean "India" but "India (WGSRPD region)". Other sources do mean the country when they say the distribution is "India". Sigh... Peter coxhead (talk) 12:51, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, what a complex issue. :) Thaks a ton. AshLin (talk) 14:20, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Sardesai et al

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List of Indian creeper articles

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