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Dichotomous key to herbaceous plants native to Asia?
I am specifically looking to identify herbaceous plants native to Taiwan and the tropical climate band of East Asia. I need one in English, though Mandarin is fine if it's a photographic key.
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- mejxuLv 71 decade agoFavourite answer
"Interactive keys are useful multiple-entry identification tools for science. A web-based program called ActKey (URL: http://flora.huh.harvard.edu:8080/actkey/) was developed to enable online, ready-access to interactive identification keys. A number of keys have been imported into a centralized, relational database, and are now available for the floras of China, North America, Madagascar, Borneo, and the world. Plants from more than 40 of the largest genera of China can be identified using ActKey. Datasets containing taxa and their characters can be imported from a variety of database formats and updated by taxonomic specialists and editors"
http://www.jstor.org/pss/25065490
Some Taiwanese plants are listed in Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation Von Kirsten Albrecht Llamas
http://books.google.de/books?id=WxW4Scq6kU8C&pg=PA...
Checking these results, might be you find more specific or better sites > http://www.google.de/#q=identification+key%2Bherba...
