| Type of site | Flora |
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| Owner | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
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| URL | www |
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GrassBase (or GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora) is a web-based database of grasses, continually maintained and updated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
As of 2015, GrassBase was one of the largest (along with GrassWorld) structured datasets for plants. In the January 2016 update, it had morphological descriptions for 11,369 accepted species of grasses and listings for 64,213 botanical names.
Authorship of the database is credited to W. D. Clayton, M. S. Vorontsova, K. T. Harman and H. Williamson.
References
- Harman, Kehan T.; Clayton, W. Derek (1 January 2007). "Recent Developments in Kew's Grass Databases (Grassbase)". Kew Bulletin. 62 (3): 375–379. ISSN 0075-5974. JSTOR 20443365.
- ^ Vorontsova, Maria A.; Clayton, Derek; Simon, Bryan K. (2015). "Grassroots e-floras in the Poaceae: Growing GrassBase and GrassWorld". PhytoKeys (48): 73–84. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.48.7159. PMC 4408733. PMID 25941449.
- "RBG Kew: GrassBase – the Online World Grass Flora". Retrieved 2018-11-21.
- "GrassBase". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
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