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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. [1] [2]As of 2015, GrassBase was one of the largest (along with GrassWorld) structured datasets for plants. [2]
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 database uses the same taxonomical source as Kew's World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, which is the International Plant Names Index, [3] and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). [5] The database contains information of the world's flora that was gathered in the past 250 years of botanical research.
Plants of the World Online is an online database launched in March 2017 as one of nine strategic outputs with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by 2020". It links taxonomic data with images from the collection, to provide a single point of access with information on ...
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 ...
[1] Maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, it was available online, allowing searches for the names of families, genera and species, as well as the ability to create checklists. [citation needed] The project traced its history to work done in the 1990s by Kew researcher Rafaël Govaerts on a checklist of the genus Quercus.
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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 .