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POWO is a global, collaborative website of plant names and related information, maintained by the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, London. POWO uses the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) as its taxonomic backbone which in turn uses the International Plant Name Index (IPNI) as its ...

October 23, 2025 - Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online taxonomic database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Following the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew launched Plants of the World Online in March 2017 with the goal of creating an exhaustive online ...

Plants of the World Online (POWO) includes descriptions, images and distribution maps. It uses Kew data as well as linking to Kew resources.

January 25, 2024 - In some cases, that’s due to a typo, or iNat uses a synonym, or the species can be automatically imported (“Search external name providers”), and so I can resolve it. In some cases, I flag the parent taxon for curation, and provide a link to the observation, and to POWO. But now there ...

POWO, 2021. Sclerocarya birrea (A. Rich) Hochst. Plants of the World Online.

POWO also aims to make freely available electronic data created by different projects but that no longer have an online presence or where data was never made available externally.

The main goal of the expowo package is to retrieve information about the diversity and distribution of any plant family as publicly available at the taxonomically verified database Plants of the World Online (POWO). The package is intended to efficiently mine the content inside the source HTML ...

July 30, 2024 - Data on plant distribution and diversity from natural history collections and taxonomic databases are increasingly becoming available online as exemplified by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's Plants of the World Online (POWO) database.

Plants of the World Online (POWO) Home · *Species- Seed plants (families) A—L (families) M—Z (families) About eFloraofIndia · About Us · 1. Outstanding Contributors · 2. The Pillars · 3. Subject/ Area Experts · 4. Moderators · 5. Major contributors ·

Plants of the World Online (POWO) is a new portal aimed at digitising and sharing known data on flora so that it can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, used for research purposes, and to inform decisions about conservation, land use, policy and practice.

June 11, 2025 - A website containing information about the Flora of Rwanda

November 27, 2024 - IPad Pro 12.9 Gen5, IOS 18.3.1 Any Browser. For the last two days, PoWO has been unable to open on the iPad and it keeps loading forever, until it says ‘Can’t open page’. Yesterday and today, the page worked sometimes briefly, but every time I am about to add a new taxon \ flag, the server crashes. https://powo.science.kew.org/ Am I the only one who has an error accessing their server or has this been the case for everyone for the last two days?

February 20, 2022 - Powo may refer to: Kingdom of Powo, a former Tibetan kingdom · Plants of the World Online, a botanical database · Category: Disambiguation pages · Search · Powo ·

REGISTER A PLANT NAME · IPNI provides nomenclatural data (spelling, author, types and first place/date of publication) for the scientific names of vascular plants from family to infraspecific ranks

July 5, 2022 - Plants of the World Online (POWO) is a database of information on the world's flora.

Deployment for POWO is managed via the powo-infrastructure repository.

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Common names: holy Venda bamboo, wild bamboo (Eng.); heilige Venda-bamboes, wilde-bamboes (Afr.); musununu (Ven.) · Article well written and informative

Plants of the World Online (POWO) is a database of information on the world’s flora. It curates information from published floras and other sources of floristic information. POWO covers much of the same grounds as WCVP - you can get taxonomic information for names from it.