Vicflora Lucid keys VICFLORA is a comprehensive and current guide to the wild plants of Victoria. With plant profiles, identification tools and richly illustrated, the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria provides this resource free-of-charge for land managers, scientists, students and indeed anyone with an interest in Victorian plants. New Lucid keys to Fabaceae (excl. Acacia), Cyperaceae and…
Rust Fungi of Australia Rust Fungi of Australia, an interactive key for species of plant pathogenic rust fungi (Pucciniomycotina) known from Australia. Rust fungi parasitise a wide range of host plants including ferns, conifers and angiosperms. Worldwide, there are about 8000 species of rust fungi and approximately 200 generic names have been proposed. With Rust…
Key to the Myrtaceae of New Zealand This key is for the identification of indigenous and exotic species within the Myrtaceae (myrtle) family that grow in New Zealand. Murray Dawson, Matt Buys, Chris Ecroyd, Elizabeth Miller, Colin Ogle, and Peter de Lange 97 main entities are included in the NZ Myrtaceae Key (mostly species, but also…
Interactive Key to the World Genera of Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) Version 1.0beta Updated January 28 2003. Upgraded into Lucid v4 December 2020. This is an early trial version of this interactive key, still lacking many images and most notes. Although it almost certainly contains some errors at this point, it nevertheless has proved fast and…
Lepidopteran Families of Biosecurity Concern An interactive lucid key is presented to assist in recognising families of targeted Lepidoptera of biosecurity concern using morphological characters of the adult. Many existing keys to adult Lepidoptera lack good illustrations of the important characters and this key provides high quality photographs of all the characters used. Easily identifiable…
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 “Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants” (the Rain Forest Key, or RFK) – the foremost identification and botanical guide to rainforest plants of northern Australia has reached a new milestone with the release of the eighth edition. For the first time the RFK is available as a mobile application which will…
An identification guide for taro in the Hawaiian Islands An identification guide for taro (Colocasia esculenta) horticultural varieties and closely related species grown in the Hawaiian Islands. Authors: Shelley A. James, Kathleen Igeta, Amanda Harbottle, Holly Bolick, and Peter Van Dyke. Bishop Museum Hawaiian Kalo Home Screen Hawaiian Kalo plant diagram Previous Next
Pest thrips in Timor Leste The insect Order Thysanoptera includes about 6300 described species worldwide. The greatest number of species live in tropical countries, but on Timor Leste scarcely 100 species have been recorded. The objective of the work presented here is to enable agricultural, horticultural, and quarantine entomologists of this country to recognize pest…
An Early Screening Tool for Exotic Scarab Pests to Australia Scarabaeidae is the largest family within the monophyletic Scarabaeoidea superfamily. It encompasses over 1,600 genera and exceeds 27,000 species worldwide, with numerous species still awaiting description. The larvae of Scarab beetles feed on decomposing plant material, dung or live plant parts. While most of the…
The Caterpillar Key An interactive key for identifying families of Lepidoptera larvae, particularly those of Australian biosecurity concern. The objective of this Lucid Key for caterpillars is to provide a tool for the identification of caterpillars to family level, with a particular focus on families of biosecurity concern to northern Australia. We have included as…