Major Milestones in the Development of the Catalogue

24 Oct. 2008: New data transferred to eflora:
  20674 Taxa in all (12569 accepted + 8105 synonyms)
  2330 Genera (1634 accepted + 696 synonyms)
  16132 Species (9756 accepted + 7376 synonyms)
  1823 Infraspecies (866 accepted + 957 synonyms)

21 Jan. 2008: New data and images transferred to eflora:
  12187 Taxa in all (7850 accepted + 4337 synonyms)
  1874 Genera (1526 accepted + 201 synonyms)
  9552 Species and 832 lower taxa (6276 accepted + 4014 synonyms)

26 May. 2007: New data and images transferred to eflora:
  1588 Genera available in efloras
  4629 Species, and lower taxa available in efloras
  6417 Objects, including 6290 jpg images

30 Dec. 2006: Madagascar Catalogue data comprises:
   49 Orders [complete]
   299 Families (249 accepted + 50 synonyms)  [complete]
   1727 Genera (1526 accepted + 201 synonyms) - 1502 available in efloras
   3662 Species (2222 accepted + 1440 synonyms) - 3113 available in efloras

30 Aug. 2006: New data transferred to eflora, total: 49 orders; 299 families; 1495 genera; 2845 species.

17 Aug. 2006: Ordinal level data added.

12 Sept. 2005: New data transferred to eflora, total: 295 families; 1268 genera; 1162 species.

1 Sept 2005: Marina Rabarimanarivo, Jeannie Raharimampionona and Nivo Rakotonirina join the Catalogue team, they are staff of MBG-Madagascar.

24 Aug. 2005: The Madagascar Catalogue was presented to the Scientific and Conservation community at the 'Toit de Tana', Hilton Hotel, Antananarivo.

17-23 July 2005: XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna: Poster Presentation of the Madagascar Catalogue

16 June 2005: Family outline for the Catalogue complete and available online.

25 May 2005: Major revisions to functionality of the eflora completed

1 Jan. 2005: Anne-Elizabeth Wolf joins the Catalogue team, she is based in Paris

18 June 2004: Prototype Catalogue went online at efloras.org with small sample data set.

26 Sept. 2003: The Madagascar Catalogue concept presented at the 17th Congress of AETFAT (Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa).

1 Jan. 2003: Phillipson joins Missouri Botanical Garden staff.

Nov. 2001: Schatz and Phillipson discuss the possibility of teaming up to develop the Catalogue in Antananarivo while drinking THB.