Plant database: a pivot of biodiversity knowledge, and sustainable management of plant collections

The necessity to achieve a better management of collections in museums, botanical gardens, and herbariums motivated the first efforts in the direction of developing tools that were based on databases. Botanical Garden of Klaipeda University created the plants database ‘Klaibota’. This database provides standardized information concerning all vascular plants. The database displays the elements of all ranks, ranging from kingdom to whatever other rank is chosen; as well as information about plant morphology, ecology, geography ant other.