Where to get species info

Please open the following links in a new tab and input your species name in the search box on that website.

Plants

• Sasya Sampada Official government of India project for biodiversity documentation
• Plant Database of India Good for getting the geographical distribution and native names of plants
• Flowers of India Excellent and a frequently referred website
• The Encyclopedia of Life Another excellent and a frequently referred website
• Google and Wikipedia as always
• Wikimedia Commons For all images...uploading and embedding
• NCBI taxonomy For genomic information

• Drug(dot)com Details of medicinal and other aspects
• India Biodiversity Portal
• Western Ghats Biodiversity Portal
• IISc Biodiversity Profile of India
• Wikipedia Portal:Indian Wildlife

Ethnobotany

• Indianmedicine.nic.in
• National Library of Ayurveda Medicine
• Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
• Wikipedia Ayurveda entry