Thanks Lana, good to know about.  I’m working on a family tree of vascular plants, and it’s good to have up-to-date sources. 

Cheers
Hannah

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> Date:    Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:06:38 +0000
> From:    Lana Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Recent Taxonomic classification of 124,993 species of vascular plants
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> Forwarded from a professor in our department!
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> For those of you who don’t read Science, you may be interested in the website.  http://tropicos.org/Project/VPA
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> “The Vascular Plants of the Americas (VPA) website contains the first integrated assessment of all known native species of vascular plants in the New World. It includes 124,993 species in 6,227 genera, and 355 families. The species number corresponds to 33% of the 383,671 vascular plant species known globally.”
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> It includes interesting taxonomic updates… for example… florist chrysanthemum is no longer Dendrathema (which I thought but…) is back to Chrysanthemum morifolium.
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> It also connects you with the NY Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium and other sites (little colored icons next to the Genus and Species after you search).
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> It is an ongoing project and the pdf of the original Science article can be found at the bottom of the home page.
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> Check it out!
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> Date:    Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:37:28 -0600
> From:    MaryBeth Hinrichs <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Recent Taxonomic classification of 124,993 species of vascular plants
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> Cool!
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> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Lana Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Forwarded from a professor in our department!
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>> 
>> For those of you who don’t read Science, you may be interested in the
>> website.  http://tropicos.org/Project/VPA
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> “The Vascular Plants of the Americas (VPA) website contains the first
>> integrated assessment of all known native species of vascular plants in the
>> New World. It includes 124,993 species in 6,227 genera, and 355 families.
>> The species number corresponds to 33% of the 383,671 vascular plant species
>> known globally.”
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It includes interesting taxonomic updates… for example… florist
>> chrysanthemum is no longer *Dendrathema *(which I thought but…) is back
>> to *Chrysanthemum morifolium*.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It also connects you with the NY Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium and
>> other sites (little colored icons next to the Genus and Species after you
>> search).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It is an ongoing project and the pdf of the original Science article can
>> be found at the bottom of the home page.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Check it out!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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