Type of site | Flora |
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Owner | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
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URL | www |
Commercial | no |
GrassBase (orGrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora) is aweb-based database ofgrasses, continually maintained and updated by theRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[1][2]
As of 2015, GrassBase was one of the largest (along with GrassWorld) structured datasets for plants.[2] In the January 2016 update, it had morphological descriptions for 11,369 accepted species of grasses and listings for 64,213botanical names.[3]
Authorship of the database is credited toW. D. Clayton,M. S. Vorontsova, K. T. Harman and H. Williamson.[4]