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This site provides access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database and associated authority files. Enter a scientific name in the box below to obtain current information on the name, its place of publication, type, and other information about the plant. Examples of name entries would be Poa, Olyra latifolia, Acacia baueri aspera. Names can be shortened to "significant" characters, for example Poa badensis can be seen by entering Poa baden because no other name has that arrangement of letters. Search for: Jim Solomon - Jim.Solomon@mobot.org
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W³TROPICOS provides new and improved access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST nomenclatural database and associated authority files. In this release (rev. 1.5), the following information is provided when present (* indicates a hypertext link to additional information about a name or reference):

Names data

Plant name and authors

Group and family placement

Place and date of publication

Type information

*Basionym, with place and date of publication

*Next Higher Taxon, with place and date of publication

*Other uses of this name

*Synonyms of this name, and *References for the alternate usage

*Homonyms and *Infraspecific names for species

Reference

Author(s) of the publication

Date of publication

Title of the article

Journal or book title

Volume and page numbers

Keywords

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