植物信息网络系统的定位与维护主体
PlantNET（新南威尔士州植物在线，The NSW Plant Information Network System）是新南威尔士州国家标本馆面向公众开放的植物信息检索平台，由悉尼皇家植物园与领地托管机构（Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney）下属的国家标本馆负责建设与维护。系统于 1999 年 1 月首次发布，目前版本为 2.0，主要提供新南威尔士州的植物名称、分布、保护状态、检索工具、描述、图像与图解信息。
核心检索与数据模块
PlantNET 由若干模块组成。NSWplants 提供接受名与异名、科学名与通用名的双向查询，可按新南威尔士州的植物分区筛选；空间检索基于国家标本馆馆藏标本数据，可在地图上圈定自定义经纬度区域列出物种清单；传统检索表沿用《Flora of New South Wales》纸质版的二分法检索体系。数据每日更新，国家标本馆的名称记录、标本记录、图像与描述文本均纳入持续维护流程。
FloraOnline 与鉴定资料
FloraOnline 是 PlantNET 的核心呈现模块，数据源自 UNSW Press 出版的纸质版《Flora of New South Wales》系列，并补充了国家标本馆维护的电子数据库内容，覆盖接受名与异名、植物描述、分布图、标本图像与生境照片。系统按被子植物系统发育组（Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG）体系组织分类，当前向 APG IV 与 APC（Australian Plant Census）靠拢，分科层级将逐步迁移，原 New South Wales Flora Online 与 PlantNET 的检索逻辑保持不变。
WeedAlert、Telopea 与附属数据库
PlantNET 还在站内托管了若干子站。WeedAlert 列出新南威尔士州过去 1 个月、3 个月、12 个月外来植物新分布记录；Casuarinaceae 木麻黄科与 EucaLink 桉树专题库于 2001 年并入，WattleWeb 金合欢属专题库同期加入。Telopea 是 RBGSYD 自 2012 年起以电子形式出版的同行评审植物系统学期刊，全文开放获取，自 2024 年起迁至 Sydney Open Journals 平台，仍可在 PlantNET 主站检索早期卷期与作者指南。
Cycad Pages 与苏铁类植物专题
Cycad Pages（苏铁类植物页）是 PlantNET 较早托管的专题子站，1989 年由国家标本馆研究员 Ken Hill 上线，按物种逐页整理了 The World List of Cycads 收录的苏铁类植物信息，涵盖学名、地理分布、形态描述与保育状态。2001 年前后该站整合入 PlantNET 模块序列。该专题目前暂停更新，公开页仅作为历史资料继续提供访问，相关学名变更请以 Plants of the World Online 与 The Plant List 为准。
Mission and Host Institution
PlantNET (The NSW Plant Information Network System) is a public plant-information service hosted by the National Herbarium of New South Wales, part of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney. The platform was first released in January 1999 and currently runs as version 2.0; it provides searchable information on the names, distribution and conservation status of New South Wales plants, along with identification keys, descriptions, images and illustrations. The same institutional arrangement also publishes Telopea, the peer-reviewed journal of plant systematics.
Search Modules and Data Coverage
PlantNET is built from several complementary modules. NSWplants indexes accepted names and synonyms and can be filtered by botanical subdivision; Spatial Search returns species lists for user-defined latitude–longitude boxes drawn over the state, using specimen records lodged at the National Herbarium; traditional dichotomous keys are derived from the printed Flora of New South Wales volumes. Database staff update name records and specimen data daily, while images and descriptive text are reviewed on a regular cycle; despite these efforts the project is presented as a working scientific resource and not as a fully audited authority.
FloraOnline and the Flora Treatment
FloraOnline is PlantNET’s central taxonomic module. Its content derives from the printed Flora of New South Wales series published by UNSW Press, augmented with electronic records maintained by the National Herbarium. The classification of flowering-plant families broadly follows the Australian Plant Census (APC), which aligns with the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group framework; the National Herbarium is migrating the catalogue from APG III to APG IV, and the resulting rearrangement of families and genera will be reflected in FloraOnline as keys and descriptions are revised. Distribution maps are generated from herbarium specimens with their geocodes and are therefore subject to the same identification and geocoding caveats noted elsewhere on the site.
WeedAlert, EucaLink, WattleWeb and Telopea
Several specialist sites are hosted within the PlantNET suite. WeedAlert tracks new distributional records of naturalised plants in New South Wales over the last one, three or twelve months; the Casuarinaceae treatment, EucaLink and WattleWeb (the Acacia specialist site) were integrated between 2000 and 2001. Telopea is the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney’s open-access, peer-reviewed journal of plant systematics, published electronically since 2012 and migrated to the Sydney Open Journals platform from 2024, while remaining discoverable from PlantNET’s Telopea index.
The Cycad Pages and Other Hosted Databases
The Cycad Pages, an individual-species treatment originally launched in 1989 by National Herbarium botanist Ken Hill, were incorporated into the platform as one of the PlantNet modules in 2001; they collate information from The World List of Cycads at species level, covering nomenclature, distribution, morphology and conservation status. The Cycad Pages are no longer actively maintained and are now archived as a historical reference; for current taxonomy users are directed to Plants of the World Online and the Australian Plant Census. The broader platform also hosts the Australian Freshwater Algae dataset and other biodiversity resources linked from the PlantNET home page.
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