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Identification tools

Identification keys and guides to algae

Identification keys and guides to fungi

New Zealand has one of the world's most comprehensive electronic databases of information on its fungi. In contrast, few field-guides have been published on the fungi of New Zealand.

The databases include some field-guide like information and modern colour photographs, however much of the information is highly technical, and to access the information about a fungus requires the user to know its scientific name.

Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, with funding support from TFBIS, have developed two web sites, the Fungal Guide and the Virtual Mycota, which allow access to information in the databases through simple pictorial keys, and an interactive key to the mushroom genera Russula and Lactarius.

 

Identification keys and guides to plants

[Coprosma dumosa]

Key to Coprosma species

David Glenny, Jane Cruickshank, Chris Morse and Jeremy Rolfe The key is illustrated with 500 images of species and the features used to i...

Cotoneaster

Key to Cotoneaster species

This Lucid 3 interactive key will help you to identify which Cotoneaster you have, of the 26 species currently known to be in New Zealand...

Native flora

Key to flowering plant genera of New Zealand

This Lucid 3 interactive key will allow you to identify to genus New Zealand's flowering plants that are wild (native and naturalised) an...

Chionochloa teretifolia

Key to the grasses

The key includes 442 species and 4 hybrid taxa of indigenous and naturalised grasses of New Zealand.

[Metrosideros excelsa] NZ Myrtaceae Key

Key to the Myrtaceae of New Zealand

A Lucid interactive key for the identification of species within the Myrtaceae family in New Zealand.

Thelymitra pulchella

Key to native orchids

This Lucid 3 key is for the identification of more than 120 species and informal entities of New Zealand native orchids. In addition to t...

Fern

Key to native plants of schools & marae

This Lucid 3 key is for the identification of New Zealand native plants commonly found in school grounds and marae.

Gorse - Ulex europaeus

Key to the weed species

A key for the identification of weeds in New Zealand.

Weedy daisy of the South Pacific

Key to weedy daisies of the South Pacific

This Lucid 3 key includes 43 species of naturalised and weedy Asteraceae in the South Pacific region.

Willow - [Salix] sp.

Key to willow species and hybrids

Illustrated with more than 2,000 images, this Lucid 3 interactive key will allow you to identify willows that are wild and in cultivation...

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eFlora

Our goal is to provide New Zealand with a dynamic, continually updated, electronically-based Flora. It will be based on new systematic re...