Introduction
Landcare Research NZ, a Crown Research Institute, has created nine online plant keys hosted at http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/identification/plants. 
These keys, mostly funded by the New Zealand Terrestrial & Freshwater Biodiversity Information System Programme (TFBIS), have been available since 2005 and will be updated to the Lucid JavaScript player edition in the near future.
The main Landcare Research authors, David Glenny, Murray Dawson, and Kerry Ford (at the Allan Herbarium), have collaborated with other colleagues, including Trevor James (weed scientist at AgResearch) and Jeremy Rolfe (Department of Conservation), to develop the following keys:
| Key | No#. taxa | Brief Details |
|---|---|---|
| Key to flowering plant genera | 1090 genera | Native and naturalised genera (not cultivated-only) |
| NZ Weeds | 667 taxa | Similar to Environmental Weeds of Australia Lucid key – same architecture |
| NZ grasses | 501 taxa | Native and naturalised species |
| Native orchids | 123 species | Plus many tag-names |
| Coprosma spp. | 53 species | All native |
| Cotoneaster | 26 species | Wild or in cultivation |
| Weedy daisy | 50 taxa | Naturalised and weedy Asteraceae in the South Pacific region |
A Lucid CD-ROM key to Australasian liverwort and hornwort genera, created by David Glenny and Bill Malcolm and including 181 New Zealand and Australian genera.- Two keys developed by two Teacher Fellows, hosted at Landcare Research:
- Native plants for schools and marae (61 taxa)
- Biodiversity assessment at Styx Mill Conservation Reserve (74 species of plants, birds, insects, etc.)
- Two free Lucid Mobile apps available on Google Store and iTunes:
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Coprosma: a genus of native New Zealand woody plants. The app was created to help identify plants during ecological survey work, but is also useful to students, researchers, and others in the New Zealand botanical community.
NZ native orchids: 120–160 species of native orchids in New Zealand, including those that don’t yet have formal botanical names. Many native orchids are endangered and accurate identification should assist in their conservation. Members of the New Zealand Native Orchid Group (http://www.nativeorchids.co.nz) and the NatureWatch NZ project (http://naturewatch.org.nz/projects/new-zealand-native-orchids) contributed numerous images to this key.
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Identic was visited by two Chinese academics earlier this year. Emeritus Professor Cheng Jiaan, from Zhejiang Agricultural University, Hangzhou, PRC, is a world expert on rice pests and particularly the brown planthopper, that has been an increasing problem in Chinese rice crops. Prof Cheng is an advisor to a major project in China aimed at reducing pesticide use in rice in the next five years and part of his visit was to discuss the role that Lucid Mobile apps might play to achieve this result.
In March Geoff Norton visited The Faculty of Agriculture at the Universiti Putra (UPM), Selangor, Malaysia to give a public lecture on the use of Lucid for facilitating the development of decision support tools. Following the lecture, Geoff had discussions with various UPM staff and then visited Dr Sivapragasam (Regional Director of the CABI – South East Asia office) and other CABI colleagues to discuss potential links on crop diagnostics.
AntKey, by Eli Sarnat and Andrew Suarez, (
Aquarium and Pond Plants of the World (
The Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources is set to release Lepidopteran Families of Biosecurity Concern, by Stacey Anderson and Glenn Bellis – An interactive Lucid key to assist in recognising families of targeted Lepidoptera of biosecurity concern using morphological characters of the adult.
The mobile app edition of FunKey has now been updated, for existing users this update should become automatically available via your device update application.
Both the USB edition and Lucid mobile App have been updated. The iOS edition of the App also contains several improvements to the interface.
A new update to Fact Sheet Fusion (v2.0.5.111) is now available (free to existing v2 licence holders).
minor bugs. Changes include:
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