Testing Times for Plant Family Recognition

Figures & data

Figure 1 Home page of the Australian Plant Family Recognition application, featuring the flowers of a cultivar of the red flowering gum (Corymbia ficifolia, Myrtaceae)

Table 1 Families covered in the Australian Plant Family Recognition web site. Worldwide (WW) species and genera numbers are from the APG (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) web site (accessed September 2009). Australian species and genera numbers are from Sjostrom and Gross (2006). For the Fabaceae and the Mimosaceae the upper row of data comes from the APG web site, while the lower row comes from the Flora of New South Wales, Vol. 2.

	Genera Aust.	Genera WW	Species Aust.	% Aust.	% intro. Aust.	Species WW	Pos^n WW largest families
Myrtaceae	77	131	1593	8.5	0.4	4620	9
Poaceae	234	668	1299	6.9	23.9	10025	4
Fabaceae s. str.	-	476	-	-	-	13855	3
	140	500	1100	-	-	12000
Asteraceae	256	1620	1121	6.0	21.9	22750	1
Proteaceae	46	80	1007	5.4	0.0	1600	40
Orchidaceae	105	880	862	4.6	0.3	21950	2
Mimosaceae	-	82	-	-	-	3275	20
	17	60	>700	-	-	>3000
Goodeniaceae	12	12	379	2.0	0.0	440	106
Rutaceae	46	161	397	2.1	1.3	1815	35
Lamiaceae	44	236	293	1.6	16.0	7175	6
Brassicaceae	60	338	195	1.0	37.9	3710	17

Figure 2 Tutorial page for the Myrtaceae featuring an image plus a listing of the ‘spotting’ characters

Figure 3 One of the 100 test pages showing the image, plus answer submission box and the optional ‘hint’ and ‘family names’ buttons