GrassBase (or GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora) is a
web-based database of
grass
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns a ...
es, continually maintained and updated by the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,10 ...
.
As of 2015, GrassBase was one of the largest (along with GrassWorld) structured datasets for plants.
[ In the January 2016 update, it had morphological descriptions for 11,369 accepted species of grasses and listings for 64,213 ]botanical name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the ''Internat ...
s.
References
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Online botany databases
Online taxonomy databases