GrassBase explained

GrassBase
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Type:	Flora
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Owner:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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]

Notes and References

1. 0075-5974. 62. 3. 375–379. Harman. Kehan T.. Clayton. W. Derek. Recent Developments in Kew's Grass Databases (Grassbase). Kew Bulletin. 1 January 2007. 20443365.
2. 10.3897/phytokeys.48.7159. 25941449. 4408733. Grassroots e-floras in the Poaceae: Growing GrassBase and GrassWorld. PhytoKeys. 48. 73–84. 2015. Vorontsova. Maria A.. Clayton. Derek. Simon. Bryan K. . free .
3. Web site: RBG Kew: GrassBase – the Online World Grass Flora . 2018-11-21.
4. Web site: GrassBase. . 18 April 2015.