{"url":"/dataset/wfo","name":"WFO","full_name":"World Flora Online","description_markdown":"The **World Flora Online (WFO)** is a comprehensive initiative that aims to create an **online flora of all known plants**. Here are some key details about the WFO:\r\n\r\n**Scope and Purpose**:\r\n   - The WFO seeks to support the **Global Strategy for Plant Conservation** by providing a centralized platform for plant-related information.\r\n   - It includes **1,614,644 names**, covering **377,749 accepted species**. Additionally, there are **1,572,290 names** associated with content such as **56,371 images**, **163,804 descriptions**, **36,225 distributions**, and **1,572,134 references**².\r\n\r\n**Taxonomic Backbone**:\r\n   - The WFO offers a **taxonomic backbone** that serves as a foundation for plant classification.\r\n   - The initial data ingestion into the taxonomic backbone was based on information from **The Plant List Version 1.1 (September 2013)**, which aggregated data from various sources such as the **African Plants Database**, **GrassBase**, and more.\r\n   - Taxonomic specialists actively curate and update the classifications of families, ensuring an up-to-date global consensus classification.\r\n   - The WFO Consortium encourages botanists worldwide to participate in creating and joining **Taxonomic Expert Networks (TENs)** to enhance the backbone's accuracy and completeness¹.\r\n\r\n**Data Availability**:\r\n   - The WFO provides a **static copy** of the Taxonomic Backbone data for download. This data is available under the **Public Domain CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)** license.\r\n   - The latest static version (as of December 22, 2023) is **108MB** in size.\r\n   - When citing the WFO, you can use the following format: \"WFO ([Year]): World Flora Online. Version [Year]. [Month]. Published on the Internet; ⁶(http://www.worldfloraonline.org). Accessed on: [Date].\"\r\n   - The DOI **10.5281/zenodo.7460141** represents all versions and always resolves to the latest one¹.\r\n\r\n**Previous Versions**:\r\n   - Copies of previous static versions are available for citation and archiving purposes. For example:\r\n     - **WFO Taxonomic Backbone (20231222)**: Version from June 25, 2023, with a size of **105MB** ¹.\r\n     - **WFO Taxonomic Backbone (20230625)**: Version from March 4, 2023, with a size of **103MB** ¹.\r\n\r\nIn summary, the World Flora Online is a valuable resource for botanists, researchers, and conservationists, providing a wealth of plant-related information and fostering collaboration in the field of botany.\r\n\r\nSource: Conversation with Bing, 3/18/2024\r\n(1) An Online Flora of All Known Plants. https://www.worldfloraonline.org/.\r\n(2) Download data - World Flora Online. https://www.worldfloraonline.org/downloadData.\r\n(3) undefined. http://www.worldfloraonline.org.\r\n(4) GitHub - tonito9/flora-datasets: Curated list of datasets on plants .... https://github.com/tonito9/flora-datasets.\r\n(5) TRY Plant Trait Database. https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Home.php.\r\n(6) undefined. http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/about/.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://www.worldfloraonline.org/","introduced_date":null,"introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":null,"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[],"languages":[],"variants":["WFO"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}