编研背景与组织机构
《中国植物志》（Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae，缩写 FRPS）是系统总结我国维管植物（蕨类与种子植物）分类与分布的学术巨著，由科学出版社出版，全书 80 卷 126 册约 5000 多万字。编研工作最早可追溯到 20 世纪 30 年代，1934 年胡先骕在第二届植物学会会议上首次公开倡议编写《中国植物志》。1959 年 10 月钱崇澍、陈焕镛等 26 位植物学家联名倡议，编辑委员会正式成立，钱崇澍与陈焕镛任主编，秦仁昌任秘书长；以后历任主编依次为林镔、俞德浚和吴征镒。编研由中国科学院主持，联合有关部委和大专院校，组织中科院植物研究所、昆明植物研究所、华南植物研究所、四川大学等 80 余家单位的 312 位作者与 164 位绘图人员协作完成。
收录范围与编研规模
全书共记录中国维管植物 301 科 3408 属 31142 种，含 9000 余幅图版，覆盖科学名称、形态特征、生态环境、地理分布、经济用途与物候期等信息；编研历经准备、初创、恢复和高速发展四个阶段，1959—1963 年出版前三卷册后停顿 10 年，1973 年由中国科学院生物学部主持恢复，1978 年起进入高速出版期，国家自然科学基金委、中国科学院和国家科技部累计投入专项经费约 446 万元，至 2004 年 9 月全部 80 卷 126 册出齐。编研曾先后获得国家自然科学一等奖 1 项、二等奖 5 项和三等奖 4 项，以及中国科学院和省部级一等奖 9 项、二等奖 32 项、三等奖 14 项；2009 年《中国植物志》编研成果获国家自然科学一等奖，由中科院植物研究所、华南植物园与昆明植物所等联合完成。
内容编排与检索功能
数字化平台完整收录纸质版全部 80 卷 126 册，按卷册索引、学名索引、中文索引、分省名录、经济用途五个常用入口组织，并设高级检索支持学名、科属、地理分布与经济用途的复合查询，分省名录按省级行政区列出该区域内有记录的物种，卷册索引按出版顺序排列，每卷册下再按科属种逐条列出形态描述与图版。中文索引按笔画与汉语拼音双轨排列，学名索引按拉丁字母顺序自动归并异名与基名，所有条目均与纸质版页码一一对应，可作为科研、教学与野外调查的对照参考。
学术影响与国际合作
《中国植物志》的全部出版使中国成为当时世界上完成国家级植物志编研的最大型国家之一，为合理开发利用植物资源、商贸检疫、公安与国防、地层鉴别、环境变迁与生物多样性研究提供了基础科学依据。1988 年由俞德浚、吴征镒代表中国科学院与美国密苏里植物园签订合作协议，1989 年起合作编写《中国植物志》英文修订版 Flora of China（25 卷），由中国和美国为主的国际团队联合完成，是《中国植物志》走向国际的重要里程碑；该书面向全世界的使用者开放，已成为国际植物学界引用最频繁的中国植物学资料之一。学术影响还延伸到商贸、检疫、公安和国防等领域，相关物种鉴定为国际贸易纠纷和侦探破案等提供基础支持。
数字化平台与资源体系
FRPS 全文电子版由中国科学院植物研究所主持建设和维护，承载于 iPlant 植物智平台（iplant.cn/frps），与中国植物图像库（ppbc.iplant.cn）、腊叶标本图像识别系统 SPM23K、秦仁昌模式标本照片集、国家重点保护植物、中国濒危保护植物、中国经济资源植物、中国外来入侵植物、中国归化植物与 Flora of China（FOC）英文版共同组成植物智资源体系；除《中国植物志》全文检索外，平台还提供 Flora of Pan-Himalayas、中国数字植物标本馆 CVH 等关联资源，并与展览温室 VR 全景、AiPlant 花伴侣 APP、FlowerMate 2.0 等识别工具集成。
Editorial Background and Contributing Institutions
Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae (FRPS) is the definitive systematic account of China’s vascular plants (ferns and seed plants), published by Science Press in 80 volumes and 126 parts totalling more than 50 million characters. The project traces its earliest roots to the 1930s, when H. H. Hu publicly proposed compiling a Chinese flora at the second congress of the Botanical Society of China in 1934; the formal editorial committee was established in October 1959 with S. S. Chien and H. Y. Chen as founding chief editors and R. C. Ching as secretary-general, followed in succession by T. N. Liou, T. T. Yü and C. Y. Wu. The work was organised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in cooperation with more than 80 research and teaching institutions, including the CAS institutes of botany in Beijing, Kunming and South China and Sichuan University, and was carried out by 312 authors and 164 illustrators.
Coverage and Scale of the Editorial Effort
The flora covers 301 families, 3,408 genera and 31,142 species of Chinese vascular plants, accompanied by more than 9,000 line illustrations and complete entries for scientific name, morphology, ecological habitat, geographical distribution, economic use and phenology. The four phases — preparation, initial start-up, recovery and high-speed completion — span the publication of the first three volumes and parts in 1959—1963, a ten-year suspension during 1963—1973, the 1973 resumption under the CAS biology division, and the 1978—2004 high-speed period funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Science and Technology with cumulative dedicated funding of about 4.46 million yuan. All 80 volumes and 126 parts were completed in September 2004; the editorial project received one State Natural Science Award first prize in 2009, together with five second prizes and four third prizes at the national level and numerous provincial and ministerial awards.
Editorial Structure and Search Functions
The digital edition reproduces every volume and part of the printed flora and offers five standard entry points — volume and part index, scientific-name index, Chinese-name index, provincial checklist and economic-use index — together with an advanced search that supports compound queries across scientific name, family and genus, distribution and economic use. The provincial checklist enumerates species recorded in each province-level administrative region; the volume index follows the printed sequence, with each family, genus and species entry giving a morphological description and plate reference; the Chinese-name index is organised by both stroke order and Hanyu Pinyin, while the scientific-name index auto-collates synonyms and basionyms. Each entry cross-references the printed page number, allowing the digital edition to serve as a working reference for research, teaching and field survey.
Scholarly Impact and International Collaboration
The completion of FRPS made China one of the largest countries to have finished a national flora at this scale, providing the foundational scientific basis for the sustainable use of plant resources, trade and quarantine inspection, public security and national defence, as well as for stratigraphic identification, environmental change studies and biodiversity research. In 1988 T. T. Yü and C. Y. Wu signed a cooperative agreement on behalf of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with the Missouri Botanical Garden, and from 1989 the two sides jointly edited the English-language revision Flora of China in 25 volumes — a major milestone that took FRPS to a global readership and remains one of the most frequently cited Chinese botanical references in the international community. The data underlying the flora continue to support trade-dispute resolution, forensic identification and applied research well beyond taxonomy.
Digital Platform and Resource Ecosystem
The full-text digital edition is built and maintained by the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and hosted on the iPlant platform (iplant.cn/frps). It forms the core of an integrated botanical resource ecosystem that also includes the Chinese Plant Image Bank (ppbc.iplant.cn), the 23,000-specimen reference set SPM23K for herbarium-sheet identification, Ching’s type-specimen photograph collection, the national key protected plants list, China’s endangered plants, Chinese economic plants, Chinese invasive alien plants, Chinese naturalised plants and the English-language Flora of China; additional linked resources cover the Flora of Pan-Himalayas, the Chinese Virtual Herbarium (CVH), greenhouse VR panoramas and the AiPlant and FlowerMate 2.0 mobile identification applications.
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