The Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility (FinBIF) maintains a national checklist of Finnish species, which is publicly available in the portal Species.fi. FinBIF gathers up-to-date information about Finnish species into the checklist, which also functions as a basis for handling observation and specimen data.

The checklist is dynamic and changes with updates. A citable checklist is created by periodically publishing a static version, which does not change after the publication.

The annual versions are published under the license Creative Commons CC BY-4.0.

ISSN: 2490-0907

Permanent address: https://urn.fi/URN:ISSN:2490-0907

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The FinBIF checklist of Finnish species

Euphorbia L.

Classification and descendants

Vernacular names

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