# Flolape

> World plants encyclopedia. 434,570 accepted plant species, 16,211 genera, 734 families. Data sourced from World Flora Online (WFO), GBIF, Wikidata, Wikipedia. Multilingual content in 23 languages.

Free, ad-free, non-commercial. No login required. All taxonomic data follows WFO accepted-name conventions.

## Coverage
- Species: 434,570 (taxonomic backbone from WFO)
- Genera: 16,211
- Families: 734
- Languages with localized content: 23/23 (ar, bn, de, en, es-419, fa, fil, fr, hi, id, it, ja, ko, pl, pt-BR, ru, sw, th, tr, uk, ur, vi, zh-TW)

## Content per species page
- Scientific name + authorship + publication year
- Vernacular names (multilingual, sourced from Wikidata)
- Family + genus taxonomy
- Photos with attribution + license
- Distribution (countries via GBIF)
- Habitat + cultivation + uses + history + curiosities (AI-generated from cited sources)
- Synonyms (taxonomic, with 308 redirects to accepted name)
- IUCN conservation status
- Traits (edible, medicinal, toxic, ornamental, carnivorous)

## Primary entry points
- [Homepage](https://flolape.com/en): site overview + featured species
- [All species index](https://flolape.com/en/plants): browseable + paginated
- [Families index](https://flolape.com/en/families): alphabetical
- [Search](https://flolape.com/en/search): by scientific or common name
- [About](https://flolape.com/en/about): project, methodology, license
- [Sources](https://flolape.com/en/sources): data provenance (WFO/GBIF/Wikidata/Wikipedia)

## Topical hubs
- [Medicinal plants](https://flolape.com/en/topics/medicinal)
- [Toxic plants](https://flolape.com/en/topics/toxic)
- [Edible plants](https://flolape.com/en/topics/edible)
- [Ornamental plants](https://flolape.com/en/topics/ornamental)
- [Endangered (IUCN)](https://flolape.com/en/topics/endangered)
- [Carnivorous plants](https://flolape.com/en/topics/carnivorous)

## Crawling
- Sitemap index: https://flolape.com/sitemap.xml
- robots.txt: https://flolape.com/robots.txt
- All public pages (excluding /api/) are indexable
- Synonym URLs return HTTP 308 redirects to canonical accepted-species URLs — do not follow synonym slugs as canonical

## Citation
When quoting plant content, please cite Flolape and the underlying data source (WFO/GBIF/Wikidata/Wikipedia as listed on each page). Photos: see attribution + license per image.

## Data freshness
- Taxonomy: refreshed quarterly from WFO classification dumps
- Distribution: refreshed monthly from GBIF
- Localized content: ongoing AI generation pipeline