{{Short description|Online database of Western Australian flora}}
'''''FloraBase''''' is a public access web-based database of the [[flora of Western Australia]]. 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.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/publications/tabledpapers.nsf/displaypaper/3711957a9adcd395d9af5eb2482571f700340ddd/$file/conservation+and+land+management+ar+2005-06.pdf | title = 2005-06 Annual Report | pages = (p.61) | publisher = [[Department of EnvironmentParks and ConservationWildlife (Western Australia)|Department of EnvironmentParks and ConservationWildlife]] | accessdateaccess-date = 2007-02-05}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Marchant, Neville | author2=Western Australia. Dept. of Conservation and Land Management | title=Florabase : what is it? | publication-date=2001 | publisher=Dept. of Conservation & Land Management | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/161800974 | access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref>
The system takes data from a number of datasets including the [[Census of Western Australian Plants]] and the [[Western Australian Herbarium]] specimen database of nearlymore 650than 803,000 vouchered plant collections.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://wwwflorabase.naturebasedec.net/content/view/2452/1322wa.gov.au/intro | title = FloraBase -– the Western Australian Flora | publisher = [[Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia)|Department of Environment and Conservation]] | accessdateaccess-date = 20072011-0212-0501 | archive-date = 2012-01-11 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120111174134/http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/intro | url-status = dead }}; in February 2007 this number was 650,000</ref> It is operated by the Western Australian Herbarium within the [[Department of EnvironmentParks and ConservationWildlife (Western Australia)|Department of EnvironmentParks and ConservationWildlife]]. It was established in November 1998.<ref>{{Cite byweb [[Alex|url=https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/about Chapman]],|title=About aFloraBase research|access-date=2019-11-10 scientist|archive-date=2019-10-17 and botanist working in the Herbarium|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017184348/https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/about |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In its distribution guide it uses a combination of [[IBRA]] version 5.1 and [[John Stanley Beard]]'s botanical provinces.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}
==See also==
*[[Conservation Codes for Western Australian Flora]]
==References See also ==
*[[Declared Rare and Priority Flora List]]
*For other online flora databases see [[List of electronic Floras]].
