Introduction to the Threatened Plants Database

Electronic Datasets

Four major datasets were made available to UNEP-WCMC to integrate into this global database for the production of the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. These were provided by:

• The Nature Conservancy (for North and South America)
• the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (Australia)
• South Africa's National Botanical Institute (southern Africa) and
• Flora Europaea

  Please contact these organisations directly for their most up-to-date data.

Searchable Database

A subset of records from the Threatened Plants Database is provided here as a searchable database. This subset includes the data published in the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants: