# EMonocot

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{{Short description|English database of biodiversity data}}
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{{Infobox website
| name             = eMonocot
| logo             = Emonocot.png
| logo_size        = 80px
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| caption          = eMonocot organisational diagram
| url              = {{URL|http://e-monocot.org/about}}
| commercial       = No
| type             = Botanical resource
| language         = English
| registration     =
| owner            =
{{blist
 | [Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanical_Gardens_at_Kew)
 | [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford)
 | [Natural History Museum](/source/Natural_History_Museum%2C_London)
 | [Natural Environment Research Council](/source/Natural_Environment_Research_Council)
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| launch_date      = {{start date|2010}}
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'''eMonocot''' was a collaborative global, online, biodiversity information resource provided by a number of botanical organisations to create a database on [Monocotyledons](/source/Monocotyledons). Participating institutions, all in England, included the [Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew](/source/Royal_Botanical_Gardens_at_Kew), the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford), the [Natural History Museum](/source/Natural_History_Museum%2C_London) and the [Natural Environment Research Council](/source/Natural_Environment_Research_Council) (NERC).

Funding of the project, which included information on over 250,000 taxa, was provided through NERC. [Taxonomists](/source/Taxonomists) from around the world contributed data, although the backbone of the resource was the [World Checklist of Selected Plant Families](/source/World_Checklist_of_Selected_Plant_Families). Data was imported and compiled from a large number of international databases and resources.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kew.org/discover/news/emonocot-portal-launched |title=eMonocot portal launched. Kew News 2010 |access-date=2016-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921104049/http://www.kew.org/discover/news/emonocot-portal-launched |archive-date=2015-09-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2017, [Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) superseded eMonocot, which built on the project's work.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Crowe |first1=James |last2=Sims |first2=Isabelle |last3=Turner |first3=Robert |last4=Borg |first4=Daniel |last5=Iacona |first5=John |title=POWO puts botanical knowledge online |date=11 April 2017 |url=https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/plant-knowledge-online}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160411063328/http://www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk/researchthemes/biodiversity-technologies/developing-tools-for-mapping-identification-of-monocotyledons-emonocot/ Developing Tools for Mapping & Identification of Monocotyledons (eMonocot). Biodiversity Institute of Oxford]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170118041546/http://www.kew.org/discover/news/emonocot-%E2%80%93-web-taxonomic-resource-plants-new-scale-and-depth eMonocot – a web taxonomic resource for plants of new scale and depth. RBG Kew]
* [http://families.e-monocot.org/ eMonocot: The Orders and Families of Monocots]
* [https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FH021817%2F1 UK Research and Innovation]

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Category:Biodiversity
Category:Biodiversity databases
Category:Databases in England
Category:Monocots
Category:Natural Environment Research Council

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