The World Flora Online (WFO) Plant List is the most comprehensive and authoritative list of vascular plants (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and bryophytes (mosses, hornworts and liverworts). It is maintained by the global taxonomic community as a free and open-access resource.

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December 15, 2021 - A significant development has been the creation of the WFO Plant List (WFOPlantList.org) to replace the long out-dated but frequently used Plant List v.1.1 (plantlist.org). The new WFO Plant List updates the higher classifications to follow the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (APG IV) and the equivalents in bryophytes, gymnosperms and pteridophytes.

October 4, 2025 - World Flora Online developed WFO's Plant List (wfoplantlist.org) to replace the traditional Plant List v.1.1 (plantlist.org).

The standardisation of plant names is a critical step in various fields of biology, including biodiversity, biogeography, and vegetation research. The WorldFlora R package (Kindt 2020) matches lists of plant names using the static copy of the World Flora Online (WFO) taxonomic backbone available here.

Like The Plant List, the WFO Plant List is a working list of all known plant species, but differs in that it is curated by the international taxonomic community. The Plant List has not been updated since 2013.

Like The Plant List, the WFO Plant List is a working list of all known plant species, but differs in that it is curated by the international taxonomic community. The Plant List has not been updated since 2013.

List. Note that The Plant List has been static since 2013, but was used as the starting point for the · Taxonomic Backbone of the World Flora Online. Function WFO.one finds one unique matching name for each submitted name.

August 13, 2025 - The consensus taxonomy of plants used as the backbone for the World Flora Online (WFO) portal, and issued as editions of the WFO Plant List. New versions of this checklist are released every six months in June and December: this is release 2025-06. The history of data development for the WFO ...

December 20, 2024 - The consensus taxonomy of plants used as the backbone for the World Flora Online (WFO) portal, and issued as editions of the WFO Plant List. New versions of this checklist are released every six months in June and December: this is release 2024-06. The history of data development for the WFO ...

Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-0000742694.

The WFO Plant List API, https://​list​.world​flo​raon​line​.org, provides a machine readable version of the data and powers the version on the WFO website.

This data is being updated and The Plant List has now been replaced by the WFO Plant List (2021 onwards), generated as snapshots of the Taxonomic Backbone. Updating of the taxonomic backbone will be a continuous process as we refine our understanding of the relationships among plants.

January 9, 2024 - This has been designed for direct import into a schemaless instance of a SOLR index and is used to drive the WFO Plant List API (https://list.worldfloraonline.org) which in turn drives the WFO Plant List in the portal.

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This is an application to serve the twice yearly data releases of the World Flora Online Plant List through an API and simple UI for name matching. You can access the live, normative, version of the API here: ... Although this is primarily designed to be hosted by the WFO as part of its online offering should also be feasible to install and run all or part of it locally if needed.