The project is a collaborative scientific effort to publish the first modern English-language account of the 31,000 species of vascular plants of China.
This checklist and Missouri Botanical Garden's Tropicos database together provide interfaces for querying the nomenclatural and distributional data and illustrations.
The data from the published volumes are presented online as separate treatments of families, genera, and species.
[1] Close international collaboration on the research, writing, review, and editing characterizes the production of the Flora.
Chinese authors work together with their non-Chinese colleagues from 29 countries (Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, Ukraine, and USA).