[APWG] Fw: Catalogue of New World Grasses The Catalogue of New World Grasses web site http://mobot.mobot.org/W3

[Jil_Swearingen at nps.gov]

Hi,

This is a great resource for information on grasses in the New World.

Jil

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                      "Robert Soreng"                                                                                                 
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                                               Subject:  Catalogue of New World Grasses The Catalogue of New World   Grasses web site 
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Catalogue of New World Grasses

The Catalogue of New World Grasses web site
http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/nwgc.html has a new utility.  Now you can
retrieve lists of all accepted taxa by New World country, from Greenland to
Argentina and Chile (typing Caribbean gets you lists for all the island
countries collectively as these are not currently subdivided).  Each name
on lists is linked to the CNWG taxon record, with information on original
publications, basionyms or types, synonyms, secondary literature citations
of the name, country distribution, specimen lists and maps, images, links
to other resources, etc.  There is also an option to email yourself these
lists (including original publications) as a good place to start with
regional checklists, floras, etc.  If you have been to the website recently
you will need to refresh your web browser's screen so that you see the
"COUNTRY LISTS OF ACCEPTED TAXA" below the individual taxon search box.
Much new data have been added since the publication of the primary data in
4 volumes in the Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium (vols. 39,
41, 46 & 48), along with corrections, newer taxa, and updates to the
classification http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/nwgclass.html. Old World
grass names data are also searchable via the site, although one can often
see more data for taxa that do not occur in the New World via the
W3Tropicos link http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html where
chromosome numbers and specimen lists and maps are available for any name.
There are about 79,000 grass names in Tropicos, from supergenera down to
forma.

The CNWG editors
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Robert J. Soreng Ph.D.
Research Associate - Poaceae
Dept. of Botany NHB MRC-166
US National Herbarium
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
P.O.Box 37012
Washington DC 20013-7012
202-633-0981 (633-0975)  202-786-2563 fax
sorengr at si.edu
soreng at comcast.net
Catalogue of New World Grasses
http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/nwgc.html