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Following the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew launched Plants of the World Online in March 2017 with the goal of creating an exhaustive online database of all seed-bearing plants worldwide. [1] [2] The initial focus was on tropical African flora, particularly flora Zambesiaca, flora of West and East Tropical ...
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 ]
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 publication titled Kew Index was issued from 1986 until 1989. [7] The first index contained the scientific names of 400,000 species, regular supplements were then issued on newly published names. The supplements were issued every five years, each one adding around 6000 names to the index, eventually forming a compilation of over 1,000,000 ...
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 [8] and over 2.4 billion seeds collected from nearly 40,000 species in the Millennium ...
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 ...
The project aims to make high-resolution images and specimen data freely available through the Kew Data Portal. By July 2024, 3.4 million specimens had been digitised. Prior to this project, all 330,000 type specimens had already been digitised and made available through platforms such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and ...
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]