Census and Classification of Plant Resources in the Solomon Islands — Specimens Dataset

It is located in the southwest Pacific at the northeast end of Australia and east of Papua New Guinea. Its geographical location, tropical climate, and mountainous topography provide it with a rich and diverse flora, harbouring over 7,000 vascular plant species.

However, in recent decades, the coverage of primary forests has declined rapidly due to logging and the increasing coverage of economic plantations. The situation has seriously threatened the country's biodiversity. Since 2012, The “Census and Classification of Plant Resources in the Solomon Islands” project has been conducting collaboratively by Solomon Islands (Ministry of Forestry and Honiara Botanical Gardens), Taiwan (International Cooperation and Development Fund, National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, National Tsing Hua University, and Koo Botanical Conservation Center), and Japan (Makino Botanical Garden).