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Global Overview of Lamiaceae and Related Families

Search page of the checklist of Lamiaceae and Verbenaceae (www.kew.org/wcsp/lamiaceae)

The broad-based collections and expertise at Kew, coupled with a productive network of collaboration enables large scale studies of the Lamiaceae and also broader studies involving related families in the Lamiales. A team of 13 authors, including 6 from RBG Kew contributed to the account of Lamiaceae in Kubitzki’s Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, coordinated and edited by Ray Harley. Sandy Atkins provided an account of the Verbenaceae, Ray Harley and Peter Green provided accounts of the Nesogenaceae and Oleaceae respectively. These works will provide the basis for systematic studies of these families for many years to come.

The network of collaborators built during this phase of the project will now be used to help review a species level global checklist of Lamiaceae.  The World Checklist of Lamiaceae and Verbenaceae, covering 7,550 species of Lamiaceae and 1005 Verbenaceae,  provides information on accepted scientific names, synonyms and botanical country (TDWG level 3) distributions. The checklist was originally compiled by Rafaël Govaerts and is primarily literature-based. Family and generic delimitation has been adjusted to reflect the circumscriptions followed in Harley et al. (2004).  The list was made accessible via RBG Kew’s website at the end of January 2006 and the network of collaborators contacted to begin the review process.  Once this is completed, the Checklist will be made available to GBIF via the Catalogue of Life Partnership.

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