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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Global Plants: An Online Plants' 'Type Specimen' Database


Marita La Monica
Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications
ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org)
151 East 61st Street
New York, NY 10065

Global Plants http://www.plants.jstor.org is a community-contributed database where worldwide herbaria can share their plant type specimens, experts can determine and update naming structures, students can discover and learn about plants in context, and a record of plant life can be preserved for future generations. The Global Plants Initiative (GPI), a collaboration of more than 270 herbaria in 70 countries, and JSTOR, a service of ITHAKA, released Global Plants a couple of months ago.