Cataloging of world's plants to be enhanced

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Monday 23rd April, 2012

o A few years ago, anyone who asked Peter Wyse Jackson how many plant species exist in the world might have been surprised by his response. The botanist didn't know, and neither did the scientific community. The president of the Missouri Botanical Garden now can safely guess that there are about 400,000 known plants. But that's only because the garden two years ago completed a massive online database dubbed the Plant List. Today, Wyse Jackson a...

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