Dave explained it this way:
If you just search for Croton, it gives you a natural "best match" search that is NOT sorted and cannot be sorted. It's like Google searches - they aren't alphabetical.
But at the top of your search, if you search for a genus, clicking on the "View all plants in the genus Codiaeum", it gives you a link to view all plants in that genus. And that page is properly sorted.
You can also find the full databases from an individual entry, you click on the blue underlined genus name.
The database is quite powerful, you just need to explore it and know how to use it.