Richard Mabbutt is a BSBI member: as he says, « I would like to thank Tim Rich, who threw down the botanical gauntlet to me when I bemoaned the lack of a resource like this in 2018. » The following is from BSBI webste.
The Basal Project is a website resource for the identification of basal and juvenile leaves of wild plants in Britain and Ireland. It has taken me five years to find and photograph 650 species, and there are around another 1750 on the wanted list.
I am looking for your help in obtaining photographs of these remaining species. The homepage has a downloadable Excel sheet that shows which species have already been found, and which species are still sought after. All photo contributions will of course be credited to the contributor.
Richard Mabbutt, BSBI member and creator of the Basal Project.
So thanks, Amadan, for alerting this; I had previously missed it.
Photographic guide to the identification and biology of European marine invertebrates. This is a serious site hosted by the Seckenberg NHM Frankfurt.
It has a photos, referenced text, bibliography, some keys, a glossary for each entry. Contributors include Dave Fenwick and I.F. Smith among others.
Here’s the home page. https://marinvert.senckenberg.science/
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I know Richard vaguely, as he’s one of the regulars on the Alyson Freeman/Brian Laney Northants group forays.
Their knowledge of plants is on an entirely different level to mine, but the outings are always informative (and great fun!) And they tolerate my enquiries about my Cambridgeshire ‘finds’, despite being outside their bailiwick.
