Flora Malesiana is a multi-volume flora

Flora

Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:...

 describing the vascular plants of Malesia

Malesia

Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the boundaries of the Indomalaya ecozone and Australasia ecozone, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom.-Floristic province:...

 (the biogeographical region consisting of Indonesia

Indonesia

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, Malaysia, Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, Brunei

Brunei

Brunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...

, the Philippines

Philippines

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, and Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

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), published by the National Herbarium of the Netherlands

National Herbarium of the Netherlands

The National Herbarium of the Netherlands was established in 1999 through a decentralized merger of the major university herbaria of Leiden , Utrecht and Wageningen...

 since 1950. It currently consists of 204 full treatments, covering circa 20% of a total of approximately 40,000 species.

Main series

Flora Malesiana is divided into two main series: I. Seed plants and II. Pteridophytes. Later volumes include CD-ROMs with additional multimedia contents such as interactive keys.

Series I. Seed Plants

Currently, the following volumes have been published in Series I. Seed Plants:

• Volume 1 - Malesian Plant Collectors
• Volume 2 & 3 - not published.
• Volume 4 (1954) - Revisions: Aceraceae, etc.
• Volume 5 (1958) - Revisions: Alismataceae, Basellaceae, Batidaceae, Betulaceae, Burseraceae, etc.
• Volume 6 (1972) - Revisions: Campanulaceae, Capparidaceae, Celastraceae, Epacridaceae, Ericaceae, Gerianiaceae, Juglandaceae, Loganiaceae, Najadaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Primulaceae, Simaroubaceae, Staphyleaceae, Thymelaeaceae.
• Volume 7 part 1 (1971) - Revisions: Byblidaceae, Cardiopteridaceae, Clethraceae, Haloragaceae, Icacinaceae, Lemnaceae, Lophopyxidaceae, Ochnaceae, Oxalidaceae, Portulacaceae, Violaceae.
• Volume 7 part 2 (1972) - Revisions: Fagaceae, Passifloraceae.
• Volume 7 part 3 (1974) - Revision: Cyperaceae.
• Volume 7 part 4 (1976) - Revisions: Balanophoraceae, Leeaceae, Taccaceae.
• Volume 8 part 1 (1974) - Revision: Hypericaceae.
• Volume 8 part 2 (1977) - Revisions: Bignoniaceae, Cornaceae, Crypteroniaceae, Iridaceae, Lentibulariaceae, Onagraceae, Symplocaceae, Ulmaceae.
• Volume 8 part 3 (1978) - Revisions: Anacardiaceae, Labiatae.
• Volume 9 part 1 (1979) - Revisions: Araliaceae-I, Liliaceae s.s.
• Volume 9 part 2 (1982) - Revisions: Cyperaceae-II, Liliaceae-I
• Volume 9 part 3 (1983) - Revision: Dipterocarpaceae
• Volume 10 part 1 (1984) - Revisions: Aristolochiaceae, Olacaceae, Opiliaceae, Triuridaceae.
• Volume 10 part 2 (1986) - Revisions: Alseuosmiaceae, Chloranthaceae, Elaeagnaceae, Menispermaceae, Monimiaceae, Sphenostemonaceae, Trimeniaceae.
• Volume 10 part 3 (1988) - Revisions: Araucariaceae, Coniferales, Cruciferae, Ctenolophonaceae, Cupressaceae, Ixonanthaceae, Linaceae, Magnoliaceae, Pinaceae, Podocarpaceae, Polygalaceae, Sabiaceae, Taxaceae.
• Volume 10 part 4 (1989) - Revisions: Chrysobalanaceae, Sabiaceae.
• Volume 11 part 1 (1992) - Revision: Mimosaceae (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae).
• Volume 11 part 2 (1993) - Revisions: Alliaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Coriariaceae, Pentastemonaceae, Rosaceae, Stemonaceae.
• Volume 11 part 3 (1994) - Revision: Sapindaceae.
• Volume 12 part 1 (1995) - Revision: Meliaceae.
• Volume 12 part 2 (1996) - Revisions: Caesalpiniaceae, Geitonoplesiaceae, Hernandiaceae, Lowiaceae.
• Volume 13 (1997) - Revisions: Boraginaceae, Daphniphyllaceae, Illiciaceae, Loranthaceae, Rafflesiaceae, Schisandraceae, Viscaceae.
• Volume 14 (2000) - Revision: Myristicaceae.
• Volume 15 (2001) - Revision: Nepenthaceae
  Nepenthaceae (2001 monograph)
  "Nepenthaceae" is a monograph by Martin Cheek and Matthew Jebb on the tropical pitcher plants of Malesia, which encompasses Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Singapore. It was published in 2001 by the National Herbarium of the Netherlands as the fifteenth volume of...
  
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• Volume 16 (2002) - Revisions: Caryophyllaceae, Cunoniaceae, Potamogetonaceae, Zosteraceae, Cymodoceaceae.
• Volume 17 part 1 (2006) - Revisions: Moraceae - genera other than Ficus.
• Volume 17 part 2 (2005) - Revisions: Moraceae - Ficus.
• Volume 18 (2007) - Apocynaceae
• Volume 19 (2010) - Cucurbitaceae

Series II. Pteridophytes

Series II. Pteridophytes consists of:

• Volume 1 part 1 (1959) - Revisions: Gleicheniaceae, Schizaeaceae, Isoetaceae
• Volume 1 part 2 (1963) - Revision: Cyatheaceae
• Volume 1 part 3 (1971) - Revision: Lindsea group
• Volume 1 part 4 (1978) - Revision: Lomariopsis group.
• Volume 1 part 5 (1981) - Revision: Thelypteridaceae.
• Volume 2 part 1 (1991) - Revision: Tectaria group.
• Volume 3 (1998) - Revisions: Polypodiaceae, Davalliaceae, Azollaceae, Cheiropleuriaceae, Equisetaceae, Matoniaceae, Plagiogyriaceae.

CD-ROMs

Several taxonomic treatments have been published by ETI Bioinformatics on CD-ROM. These treatments have various multimedia

Multimedia

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 features such as interactive keys, many images, and literature databases. Currently, the following treatments have been published on CD-ROM:

• Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae of South East Asia
• Leguminosae - Mimosoideae of South-East Asia
• Orchids of New Guinea Vol. I - Illustrated Checklist and Genera
• Orchids of New Guinea Vol. II - Dendrobium and allied genera
• Orchids of New Guinea Vol. III - Genera Acanthephippium to Hymenorchis (excluding Dendrobiinae s.l.)
• Orchids of New Guinea Vol. IV - Genera Kuhlhasseltia to Ophioglossella
• Orchids of New Guinea Vol. V - Genera Pachystoma to Zeuxine (excluding Dendrobiinae s.l.)
• Orchids of New Guinea Vol. VI - Genus Bulbophyllum
• Orchids of The Philippines Vol. I - Illustrated Checklist and Genera

Digitalization

In 2010 an initiative was taken to make all of the contents of Flora Malesiana available though a website, as a so-called e-flora (the 'e' standing for 'electronic' or 'enhanced'). This initiative was taken because (1) the overall progress of Flora Malesiana in terms of the number of species covered is too slow (about 80% of all species in Malesia still need to be treated) to make a timely contribution towards sustainability and conservation, and (2) several volumes of Flora Malesiana are out-of-print.