Template:Tropicos

"{{#property:P225}}". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Usage

Use this template to add a reference or link to a taxon or species within Tropicos or within a Tropicos project. You can optionally provide the Tropicos taxonId or other parameters to link to specific taxon, otherwise this template will retrieve the corresponding Tropicos taxonId from Wikidata (if the data is there). Put this template inside of <ref> tags to make full citations. Other parameters from {{citation}} are available.

Easiest: retrieve wikidata

Simply use the tag by itself or leave first two parameters blank to generate a citation of Wikidata's corresponding link to ThePlantList for the current article's plant species.

{{Tropicos}}

OR

{{Tropicos|access-date=17 February 2026}}

Wikidata will still be retrieved when combined with other parameters below, as long as the taxonId space is left blank.

Wikidata use example

Adding {{Tropicos}} to the Nyssa sylvatica page creates the following:

"Nyssa sylvatica". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden – via Tropicos.org.

Manual taxonId syntax

{{Tropicos | taxonId | taxonName | authors | validity | access-date=<date>}}

OR to for a specific Tropicos project:

{{Tropicos | projectId | taxonId | taxonName | authors | validity | access-date=<date>}}

Manual taxonId samples

{{Tropicos | 2701191 | Rudbeckia hirta | L. | | access-date= 17 February 2026 }}

{{Tropicos | 2703041 | Rudbeckia serotina | Nutt. | nv | access-date= 17 February 2026 }}

{{Tropicos | 40027515 | Rudbeckia}}

Results

"Rudbeckia hirta L.". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 17 February 2026.

"Rudbeckia serotina Nutt. Synonym". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 17 February 2026.

"Rudbeckia". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Tropicos projects

1. {{Tropicos | 23 | 15100076 | Liquidambar barbata | Stokes | nv | access-date= 17 February 2026 }}
2. {{Tropicos | 23 | 15100008 | Liquidambar styraciflua | | | access-date= 17 February 2026 }}
3. {{Tropicos | 23 | 33800477 | Viola sagittata |first=Harvey E. |last=Ballard Jr.}}
4. {{Tropicos | 10 | 25550511 | Zea mays subsp. mexicana | (Schrad.) Iltis}}
5. {{Tropicos | 29 | 2701191 | Rudbeckia hirta | L.}}
6. {{Tropicos | 8 | 5502935 | Platycodon grandiflorus | L.}}
7. {{Tropicos | 8 | | Platycodon grandiflorus | L.}}

(Not specifying taxonId as in the last example will retrieve taxonId from wikidata if the page has wikidata)

Results

1. Yatskievych, George (ed.). "Liquidambar barbata Stokes Synonym". Flora of Missouri. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 17 February 2026 – via Tropicos.org.
2. Yatskievych, George (ed.). "Liquidambar styraciflua". Flora of Missouri. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 17 February 2026 – via Tropicos.org.
3. Ballard Jr., Harvey E. "Viola sagittata". In Yatskievych, George (ed.). Flora of Missouri. Missouri Botanical Garden – via Tropicos.org.
4. "Zea mays subsp. mexicana (Schrad.) Iltis". Catalogue of New World Grasses. (CNWG). Missouri Botanical Garden – via Tropicos.org.
5. "Rudbeckia hirta L.". Flora of North America Checklist. Missouri Botanical Garden – via Tropicos.org.
6. "Platycodon grandiflorus L.". Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden – via Tropicos.org.
7. "Platycodon grandiflorus L.". Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden – via Tropicos.org.

Parameters

• taxonId

the id of the taxon on Tropicos web site.

Sample (for Rudbeckia): 2196

• taxonName

The name of the taxon (without italic).

Sample (for Rudbeckia): Rudbeckia

• author (optional)

The author of the taxon.

Sample (for Rudbeckia): L.

• validity (optional)

If the taxon is considered as unaccepted or synonym by Tropicos, add nv.

Sample (for Selaginella caesia): nv

• projectId

Here is the list of supported Tropicos projectids and projects, with links for you to search for taxonid and author:

0    Tropicos

2    Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador

3    Flora Mesoamericana

4    Panama Checklist

5    Peru Checklist

7    Flora de Nicaragua

8    Flora of China

9    IPCN Chromosome Reports

10    Catalogue of New World Grasses

11    Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of the Department of Antioquia (Colombia)

13    Bolivia Catalogue

15    Passiflora

16    Bolivia Bryophyte Project

17    Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar

20    Proyecto Madidi

21    Andean Bryophytes

22    Moss Flora of China

23    Flora of Missouri

24    Rare and Endangered Plant Seed Bank

25    Brassicaceae

26    A World Checklist of Thymelaeaceae

27    Engelmann Online

28    Berberis

29    Flora of North America Checklist

30    Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal

31    Flora of Chile

32    Flora of Pakistan

33    Trees and shrubs of the Andes of Ecuador

34    Rubiaceae

35    Madidi Checklist

37    Araceae

39    Araliaceae

40    Aroid Greenhouse

41    Central American Mosses

42    Checklist of the Shaw Nature Reserve

43    Moss World Flora

44    Paraguay Checklist

45    Flora Palaestina

46    Base de Datos de Minera Panamá

47    Epiphytic Orchid Projects

48    Pottiaceae

49    Flora of India Checklist

50    Plants of the Nimba Mountains

51    Index to the Climate Change Vulnerability of Andean Plants

52    Cretaceous & Cenozoic Plant Fossils

53    Bignoniaceae

55    WBN Flora Database

56    Flora of Panama (WFO)

57    Annals Content (WFO)

58    Annals Content (WFO)

59    GLORIA

60    [http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?projectid=60 Bryophytes (WFO)

61    Flora of Bolivia

63    Missouri Bryophytes

66    Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica

68    African Plant Database

69    The Pandanaceae Project

70    Inga Taxonomy

71    Paramos de Antioquia

72    Ferns & Lycophytes

73    Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la Selva Central, PERÚ

74    Ambatovy Madagascar

75    Threatened Species of Gabon

76    WFO-Cordiaceae

Use samples

• Oplismenus undulatifolius, Daylily

See also

• Category:Pages using Tropicos template without author names: tracks citations of resources that should have author names but do not (such as the Flora of Missouri)
• {{GRIN}}
• {{WCSP}}
• {{eFloras}}
• {{Taxonbar}}
• {{ThePlantList}}
• {{Tropicos/label}} a sub-template.
• Other templates of Category:Biology external link templates
• Other templates of Category:Botany external link templates

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