Taxonomic index, anyone?

[R. Soreng]

For plant names, lectotypifications are regularly entered into TROPICOS,=20
Missouri Botanical Gardens' on-line plant taxonomy database.  If anyone=20
is serious about developing a database for lectotypes it would good to=20
avoid duplication of effort.  To enter data into TROPICOS you need an=20
account with MO and some training on how to standardize the entries. =20
Anyone interested in developing this idea further should write to Bob=20
Magill magill at mobot.mobot.org.  Currently the on-line version of the=20
database does not display the fields that have lectotypification=20
data, however, this could be changed easily. =20

http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search-pick.html  (W3TROPICOS)

For an example of how these are recorded and displayed look up
Poa tracyi Vasey on=20
http://www.mobot.org/mobot/tropicos/Poa/agfnames.html
Catalogue of New World Grasses Draft

Rob Soreng
Research Associate
Botany Dept.
Smithsonian Institution

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