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Database redesign and development: FNA Glossary
13 January 2025
The Hunt Institute is pleased to announce the migration of the Categorical Glossary for the Flora of North America Project to our new, more advanced online system. Compiled by Robert W. Kiger and Duncan M. Porter and published in 2001, this glossary is a selective resource that reconciles and standardizes plant-taxonomic description. Originally designed to enable computer-based comparative databanking, it remains a valuable tool for researchers and practitioners in plant taxonomy.
The updated platform features a streamlined and user-friendly interface, making it easier than ever to explore this resource. Providing standardized and unambiguous terminology for plant morphology and anatomy, the glossary supports both traditional research and modern computational applications. We invite you to explore the updated system and rediscover this significant contribution to botanical research.
About the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora.
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