Snapshots of the WFO Taxonomic Backbone
| Date of Snapshot | No. of accepted taxa | Access Archive Data (Zenodo) |
|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | 446,464 | Data files |
| December 2023 | 444,878 | Data files |
| June 2023 | 439,505 | Data files |
| December 2022 | 449,666 | Data files |
| June 2022 | 565,127 | Data files |
| December 2021 | 562,041 | Data files |
| May 2019 | 609,419 | Data files |
| March 2019 | 389,394 | Data files |
| July 2018 | 390,583 | Data files |
Name matching facility – WorldFlora R tool
WorldFlora is a tool for the software environment R which aids the matching of plant names using downloaded snapshots the WFO Taxonomic Backbone, available here.
WorldFlora offers a straightforward pipeline for the semi‐automatic checking of plant names, and can detect both exact and fuzzy matches. For the test data sets (July 2018 to May 2019), the success rate of credible name matches ranged from 94.7% to 99.9% (Kindt 2020).
A graphical user interface for WorldFlora — RcmdrPlugin.WorldFlora — is also available, and its use is documented in this manual.
Kindt, R. (2020). WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data. Applications in Plant Science, 8(9): e11389. DOI: 10.1002/aps3.11388 [open access].