This online catalogue is acompanion to the resource paper: Aubert S, Boucher F, Lavergne S, Renaud J, Choler P (2014) 1914-2014: A revised worldwide catalogue of cushion plants 100 years after Hauri and Schröter. Alpine Botany 124(1) 59-70 Please use this this reference to cite this catalogue.

In the context of the paper, the authors are grateful to the following persons:

Dr. Ihsan Al-Shehbaz at Missouri Botanical Garden (Brassicaceae),
Dr. Richard Winkworth (NZ cushion plants), Jean-Louis Latil (Cactaceae),
Pr Farideh Attar (thorny cushions of Iran and Afghanistan),
Mireille Basile and Cristina Roquet for helping out with some database checkings and additions.

Our dear colleague Serge Aubert had the original idea of a worlwide catalogue of cushion plants and its online version. Over the last three years, Serge has methodically collected all the information to provide a revised synthesis 100 years after the first catalogue that was published by Hauri and Schroter in 1914. Serge Aubert passed away suddenly February 19, 2015. Read a tribute to Serge Aubert here (in French). This online catalogue is conceived as an evolving and participative database, and we invite experts to improve this work.

For any correspondance related to suppression/addition of species, revision of geographic information, images, please contact:
Philippe Choler

Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA - Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, F38000 Grenoble
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, SAJF - Jardin du Lautaret, F38000 Grenoble

Since 2014, the following modifications have been made in the catalogue

-* 2020-05 *-
Pictures added for Saxifraga subsessiliflora (Thanks to Maxime Rome from Jardin alpin du Lautaret)

-* 2018-03 *-
Distribution & pictures added for:
Punotia lagopus(Thanks to Håkan Sönnermo)
Euphorbia clavarioides (Thanks to Florian Boucher)

-* 2015-01 *-
Distribution corrected for:
Wahlenbergia pulvillus-gigantis

New species added:

Alchemilla pinnata, Alchemilla tanacetifolia; Arenaria dyris; Craterocapsa congesta; Erica alexandri; Helichrysum pagophilum; Laxmannia brachyphylla; Limonium lopadusanum, Limonium hyblaeum, Limonium mazarae, Limonium intermedium, Limonium caprariense; Mona meridensis; Muhlenbergia fastigiata; Psychrophila dioneifolia; Wahlenbergia polytrichifolia

The authors would like to thank the following contributors to the updating of the catalogue:

- Pr Antoine Cleef (Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem dynamics, Amsterdam)
- Dr Robert Parson (Department of Botany, La Trobe university, Melbourne)
- Jenny Wainwright-Klein (Munich Botanical Garden)

The authors would like to thank the following contributors for providing images (alphabetic order):