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After the Convention on Biological Diversity, Plants of the World Online was launched by the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew in March 2017 to create an exhaustive online database of seed-bearing plants worldwide. [1] [2] The initial focus was on tropical African flora, particularly flora Zambesiaca, flora of West and East Tropical Africa. [3]
The UK Native Seed Hub (UKNSH) is a project of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership growing and distributing seeds of UK native plant species. It is in part a response to the 2010 report Making Space for Nature by Sir John Lawton .
IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Index Kewensis), The Harvard University Herbaria (Gray Herbarium Index), and the Australian National Herbarium . The IPNI database is a collection of the names registered by the three cooperating institutions and they work towards standardizing the information.
The Royal Botanic Gardens stores over 2.4 billion individual seeds in a bomb and floodproof underground vault in rural West Sussex. More than 40,000 plant species now stored in Kew Gardens’ seed ...
Its 326-acre (132 ha) site at Kew has 40 historically important buildings; it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. [6] The collections at Kew and Wakehurst include over 27,000 taxa of living plants, [7] 8.3 million plant and fungal herbarium specimens, and over 40,000 species in the seed bank. [8]
The Kew Seed Bank facility, set up by Peter Thompson in 1980, preceded the MSBP and was headed by Roger Smith from 1980 to 2005. From 2005, Paul Smith took over as head of the MSBP. The Wellcome Trust Millennium Seed Bank building was designed by the firm Stanton Williams and opened by Prince Charles in 2000. [ 4 ]
As of January 2013, 173 families of seed plants were included. [1] Coverage of monocotyledon families was completed and other families were being added. [2] There is a complementary project called the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), in which Kew is also involved. The IPNI aims to provide details of publication and does not aim to ...
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. [1] [2]As of 2015, GrassBase was one of the largest (along with GrassWorld) structured datasets for plants. [2]