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 GRIN Taxonomy for Plants

Download GRIN TAXONOMY for PLANTS Data
on Families, Genera, or Species
  1. If desired, print this page of instructions for later reference.
  2. Activate the following link: Click here to download
  3. You will be transferred to the GRIN TAXONOMY for PLANTS public download directory, where compressed DBF files of the GRIN family, genera, species, and common name data are listed. Two additional files for species names treated by the seed associations AOSA and ISTA are also present.
  4. Select and view the "readme" file, describing the contents of these data files.
  5. Click on the desired filename with your mouse to start the download process of the file to your computer.
  6. Decompress the downloaded file locally using ZIP-UNZIP compression-decompression software. Please be aware that some of these files will be quite large, ca. 25 times current size (ca. 100 megabytes), when uncompressed.
  7. Import the resulting DBF file into local database capable of accommodating an imported file of this magnitude.
       
Last modified: 12 March 2009  
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