Bamboos are economically important plants with innumerable uses and many environmental benefits. Improving the availability of information on bamboos is an important step towards the development of sustainable utilization and conservation for this valuable renewable resource, not only in its natural habitats, but also wherever it is cultivated throughout the world. This site was launched in August 2006, primarily as a means to bring together the growing variety of dispersed online tools and information relating to bamboo identification and naming. It also provided an opportunity to disseminate personal publications produced over a 25 year career as a bamboo specialist, working in Asia and in western botanical gardens. Most of these are accessible here as PDF documents or online links. This anniversary also coincides with the publication of the English-language Flora of China bamboo account, a project in which approximately one third of the world’s bamboos are described, arranged more natural system of genera backed up by results of research into their molecular phylogeny. The emphasis of this site is on woody bamboos of Asian origin, especially those from temperate areas, and their cultivation in Europe & the USA. The initial intention was to write a book, but a website seemed a much more flexible, useful and powerful alternative, which could adapt and develop, and link directly to other developing online information. ... [Information of the supplier]
Grasses of Iowa is an on-going project of the Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Department at Iowa State University designed to provide to a broad audience–the general public and professionals alike–a handy resource for the identification and evaluation of grasses. [Information of the supplier]
This web site (in French language) provides identification keys for members of the family Poaceae (Gramineae) occurring in Metropolitan France, accompanied by introductions, information on distributions and photographs for many grass species. [Editorial staff vifabio]
This package is generated from a DELTA database (Dallwitz 1980; Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1993). It comprises an interactive identification and information retrieval system using the program Intkey (running under MS-Windows), descriptions, illustrations, references, and other subsidiary material. The database contains detailed morphological, anatomical and physiological descriptions of over 800 grass genera (Watson and Dallwitz 1981; Watson, Dallwitz, and Johnston 1986; Watson 1987). The descriptive terminology employed here is mostly in line with normal agrostological usage, as set out in modern textbooks, monographs and regional floras (e.g. Hubbard 1968, Hitchcock and Chase 1950, Gould 1968, Jacques-Félix 1962, Bor 1960, Clayton and Renvoize 1986, Chapman and Peat 1992, etc.; and for anatomy, Metcalfe 1960, Clifford and Watson 1976, Ellis 1976 and 1979, and Watson and Dallwitz 1988). Detailed, written Character Notes have been entered for too few of the characters, but the copious character illustrations now provided should facilitate differentiating between character states. ... [Information of the supplier]
