eMonocot

{{Short description|English database of biodiversity data}}

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| name = eMonocot

| logo = Emonocot.png

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| caption = eMonocot organisational diagram

| url = {{URL|http://e-monocot.org/about}}

| commercial = No

| type = Botanical resource

| language = English

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| Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

| University of Oxford

| Natural History Museum

| 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. Participating institutions, all in England, included the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, the University of Oxford, the Natural History Museum and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

Funding of the project, which included information on over 250,000 taxa, was provided through NERC. Taxonomists from around the world contributed data, although the backbone of the resource was the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Data was imported and compiled from a large number of international databases and resources.{{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|archive-date=2015-09-21 |url-status=dead }} In 2017, Plants of the World Online superseded eMonocot, which built on the project's work.{{Cite news |last1=Crowe |first1=James |last2=Sims |first2=Isabelle |last3=Turner |first3=Robert |last4=Borg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}}