Type of site | Flora |
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Owner | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
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URL |
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Commercial | no |
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] In the January 2016 update, it had morphological descriptions for 11,369 accepted species of grasses and listings for 64,213 botanical names. [3]
Authorship of the database is credited to W. D. Clayton, M. S. Vorontsova, K. T. Harman and H. Williamson. [4]