Knowledge: poaceae
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- Poaceae in Flowering Plant Families - University of Hawaii
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/po.htm - Photos and short descriptions of about 20 grasses important in Hawaii.
- World Grasses Database - Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/herbarium/gramineae/wrldgr.htm - Downloadable (20 MB) morphological descriptions of some 9000 species coded in DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) format using approximately 1000 characters. Uses INTKEY software available elsewhere, a program for interactive identification and information retrieval, to generate printed descriptions of species and genera, list the occurrence of particular characters or character combinations, assist in key construction, and make identifications.
- Know Your Grasses
http://texnat.tamu.edu/cmplants/B-182/main.htm - Descriptions and ink drawings of over 70 range grasses of Texas. The TEXNAT site is an information database on natural resource management of Texas rangelands. Texas A&M Research and Extension Center in San Angelo.
- Virtual Flora: Poaceae (Grasses)
http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/mono/poa/welcome.html - Photo gallery and descriptions (in Swedish) of Scandinavian grasses. Database (Sök i Riksmuseets samlingar) can be searched by those unfamiliar with Swedish. Grasses are given common names in English, German, and up to four Scandinavian lanuguages, the images can be useful in any language, and the Home Page (Innehållsförteckning) provides accessibility to plant lists using internationally recognizable visual symbols.
- Manual of Grasses for North America
http://herbarium.usu.edu/grassmanual/ - Information about and from a project creating a taxonomic account of all grasses that have been found growing without cultivation in the continental United States and Canada plus, many cultivated species grown in the region.
- Stipeae
http://herbarium.usu.edu/stipeae/ - Limited taxonomic information about this tribe of grasses, which includes Achnatherum, Aciachne, Anemanthele, Austrostipa, Jarava, Macrochloa, Nassella, Nicoraella, Oryzopsis, Piptochaetium, Ptilagrostis, Stipa, and Trikeraia.
- Texas Grasses
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/taes/tracy/610/ - Taxonomy, key and descriptions of genera, checklist, anatomy, and glossary.
- Grass Hybrids Database
http://128.32.88.35/grassweb/ - A cooperative project dedicated to collecting data from interspecies crosses between Gramineae (=Poaceae) and disseminating these data immediately via the searchable hybrids list database on this website.
- Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae)
http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/nwgc.html - Project to database and link all nomenclature, types, synonymy, current taxonomy, and distribution for grasses occurring from Alaska and Greenland to Tierra del Fuego.
- Grass Genera of the World
http://delta-intkey.com/grass/ - Descriptions and illustrations of over 800 grass genera by L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz. Includes synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, and distribution. Based on the DELTA system adopted by the International Taxonomic Databases Working Group.
- Pooideae (Poaceae) in Australia
http://delta-intkey.com/pooid/www/ - Database under development representing 59 genera and 303 taxa in the subfamily Pooideae (formerly, Festucoideae). Descriptions and illustrations. By C.M. Weiller, M.J. Henwood, J. Lenz and L. Watson. Uses the DELTA System.
- Gramineae in the Families of Flowering Plants
http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/graminea.htm - Contains list of genera (without links) and some unique illustrations.
- American Bamboo Society
http://www.americanbamboo.org/ - Descriptions of every species of bamboo sold in the United States, general information about bamboo, and links to bamboo societies around the world.
- GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/grassbase/ - The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew provides a list of all the World's Grasses, with descriptions, nomenclature, type information and an interactive key.
- Bamboo Identification
http://www.bamboo-identification.co.uk/ - Tools for bamboo recognition, identification, and naming. Information on structure, classification, books, publications.
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