2000 Volume 40 Issue 3-4 Pages 145-157
The objective of this study was to improve plant identification functions of the computer program and its underlying database described earlier (Ohkawa 1997). The new database is a “matrix” of 2,172 species of seed plants consisting of 166 characters. A new program was developed for utilizing their characters as synoptical keys for plant identification. It includes plant identification as its main function. The program also includes some supplemental functions related to plant identification, i.e., extraction, addition, correction of plant data and presentation of plant photographs. This program was used in exercises by school teachers and university students. Overall results from the exercises showed that the new program was used effectively for plant identification.
