Current content on CATE-Araceae website

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Current content on CATE-Araceae website

In this forum topic we aim to provide a summary of total taxa covered in CATE-Araceae so far.

The CATE-Araceae website (http://cate-araceae.org) is now in version 0.5, released on 4 April 2008. A new version is due in July 2008.

Taxa covered (23 June 2008):

1. Skeleton web pages for all species of Araceae (including Lemnaceae) accepted in the World Checklist of Monocotyledons (http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do).
2. Detailed content web pages for all genera.
3. Key to all genera.
4. Detailed content web pages for all species of Arum
5. Key to species of Arum
6. Detailed content web pages for many species of Anthurium (459) Arophyton, Carlephyton, Colocasia, Gonatopus, Hapaline, Philodendron (185), Pothos, Pothoidium, Zantedeschia.
7. Key to 820 species of Anthurium
8. Key to 465 species of Philodendron


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Next CATE iteration-new additions due

I have just completed the African key to Araceae which will be due to go up in the next iteration of CATE. The detailed descriptions to all of these will also go up. (Approx 207 pages) (date TBC)

The current descriptions of Rhaphidophora [written by Peter Boyce] will also go up.


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New content as of July 2008

We now have a key to all the African taxa of Araceae, as well as webpages for all these taxa. There is also data for most Rhaphidophora species. This is in addition to the content listed by Simon on 23rd June.


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