GrassBase provides an interactive guide to nomenclature for the whole grass family. It provides lists of over 60,000 names for any given genus, geographical region or genus within a geographical region, helps find the accepted name, synonyms and distribution for any given name, and gives a desription for each species.

Prefix

grassbase

Links

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Contact

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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in GrassBase should match this regular expression:
^(imp|gen)\d{5}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

imp10873   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from GrassBase should match this regular expression:
^grassbase:(imp|gen)\d{5}$

Example CURIE

grassbase:imp10873

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 1 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier imp10873 is used to demonstrate the providers available for GrassBase. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.