Punch-card grasses key - Identikit
In 1985 the Field Studies Council published an innovative polyclave (multi-access) key to British grasses that relied on cards with holes punched in them. The key was the work of Richard J. Pankhurst - a true early innovator of using computers for biological identification - and Judith M. Allinson an experienced botanist working for the FSC. As a bit of fun and a tribute to the pioneering work of Pankhurst, Allinson and the FSC, we here present their multi-access key as implemented in the FSC Identikit. Instead of stacking cards and peering through holes, the Tom.bio ID Framework provides a modern user interface! We've kept pretty much everything else, including the taxonomy and the character help, as it was in the original.
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Keywords:
grasses poaceae gramineae fsc identikit