on which names are currently accepted. The Plant List is an Internet encyclopedia project which was launched in 2010 to compile a comprehensive list of botanical nomenclature. The Plant List has 1,064,035 scientific plant names of species rank of which 350,699 are accepted species names. In addition, the list has 642 plant families and 17,020 plant genera. It was last updated in 2013, and was superseded by World Flora Online. World Flora Online World Flora Online was developed as a successor to The Plant List, in 2012, aiming to include all known plants by 2020. See also Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – its two main sites: Kew Gardens Wakehurst, West Sussex Botanists active at Kew Gardens Curtis's Botanical Magazine, an illustrated publication which began in 1787 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew GrassBase Index Kewensis, a massive index of plant names started and maintained by Kew Gardens Joseph Dalton Hooker, who succeeded his father, William Jackson Hooker, as director in 1865 Kew Bulletin, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The Great Plant Hunt, a primary school science initiative created by Kew Gardens, commissioned and funded by the Wellcome Trust Kew Gardens (Leases) Act 2019, an Act of Parliament relating to the Gardens References Sources External links A Year at Kew – BBC documentary behind the scenes at Kew Gardens (archived 13 February 2005) 1759 establishments in England Botanical research institutes Charities based in London Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Exempt charities Kew, London Non-departmental public bodies of the United Kingdom government Organisations based in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Herbaria in the United Kingdom