FloraBase is a public access web-based database of the flora of Western Australia

Flora of Western Australia

The flora of Western Australia comprises 9,437 published native vascular plant species of 1,543 genera within 226 families; there are also 1,171 naturalised alien or invasive plant species more commonly known as weeds...

. It provides authoritative scientific information on 12,978 taxa, including descriptions, maps, images, conservation status and nomenclatural details. 1,272 alien taxa (naturalised weeds) are also recorded.

The system takes data from a number of datasets including the Census of Western Australian Plants and the Western Australian Herbarium

Western Australian Herbarium

The Western Australian Herbarium is the State Herbarium in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia. It is part of the State government's Department of Environment and Conservation, and has responsibility for the description and documentation of the flora of Western Australia.The Herbarium is...

 specimen database of nearly 725,000 vouchered plant collections. It is operated by the Western Australian Herbarium within the Department of Environment and Conservation. It was established in November 1998.

In its distribution guide it utilises a combination of IBRA

Ibra

Ibra is the second largest city in the Ash Sharqiyah Region of Oman. It is located about 140 km from Muscat and has a population estimated at 35,000 people....

 version 5.1 and John Stanley Beard

John Stanley Beard

John Stanley Beard was a British-born forester and ecologist who resided in Australia. While working with the Forestry Division in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1940s, Beard developed a system of forest classification for Tropical America and described the forests of Trinidad, Tobago, and the...

's botanical provinces.