You will find a comprehensive catalogue of the whole family, with pages for all species and subspecies currently recognized in the literature. Many of these species and subspecies are illustrated and diagnoses provided to enable you to identify them with confidence.
Our further aim (now being implemented as part of the eMonocot project) is to encourage the wider community to become involved with the project, share their information and images, and even propose changes to the classification that will be peer reviewed for possible inclusion in a new version of the classification.
This catalog was originally created as part of CATE --Creating a Taxonomic E-science. It was a 3-year project, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), with the goal of developing the technologies to put not only the product of taxonomic research onto the web, but the process, involving the user community, to propose and review changes.
One animal group (the Sphingidae) and one plant group (the arum lilies, Araceae) were selected to test the feasibility of the approach.