[Taxacom] Plant common names

[Nadia Talent]

Wikipedia plant editors make considerable use of USDA GRIN, which has combined various lists of common names, emphasizing English, but not exclusively. It seems quite independently derived from Michel Porcher's site. It's also shut down at present.

For example, google's archive of the GRIN entry for Abutilon megapotamicum

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WL7cGD65rq4J:www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl/family.pl%3F751+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

omits the Japanese names, has three more in Portuguese, and one in German.

Nadia Talent

On 2013-10-07, at 10:14 , Rafaël Govaerts <R.Govaerts at kew.org> wrote:

> Dear Bruno,
> The most comprehensive I know is the one by Michel Porcher:
> http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Abutilon.html
> Though it is not always easy to search (especially with the US being shut down.).
> Rafaël
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Bruno de Medeiros
> Sent: 07 October 2013 15:08
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: [Taxacom] Plant common names
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This might have been discussed in the list at some point, but I could not find anything searching the archives.
> 
> Is there an online database of plant common names (relating them to the appropriate scientific)? I am especially interested in sources that have names in other languages in addition to English.
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestion!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bruno
> --
> Bruno A. S. de Medeiros
> PhD Candidate, Farrell lab
> Museum of Comparative Zoology
> Harvard University
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