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 About ASIUM database.This Umbelliferae database in the MSU is concentrated on the Umbelliferae species in Asia, a continent with the greatest biodiversity in the family. It is named ASIUM (ASIatic UMbelliferae). Likewise to the database CARUM, it is connected with GNOM, as in both the files of generic names from the latter is used. New generic names and coresponding combinations on species level could be inputed into CARUM and ASIUM only if they were preliminary introduced into GNOM. ASIUM contains information about accepted names and synonyms of species; their authorities, abbreviation for which are unified according Brumitt & Powell (1992), with an exception of Chinese botanists' names, which are cited accordingly ... & Nicolson (....); protologue data, typification, essential references of regional Floras, monographs and critical articles, concerning the species, as well as distribution data. Synonymy is critically checked according modern conceptions and numerous particular investigations, carried out in the MSU Botanical Garden. It reflects, of course, the viewpoint of the database compilers; the alternative ones are represented by synonymy. Now the database contains 2088 accepted species names; the number has not been practically increasing last two years because inclusion of new names is approximately balanced by reduction of some old names in synonymy of other ones. Total number of names, accepted and synonyms, specific and intraspecific, is 7198. The number of genera is 281, number of references - 2054. So, it is possible to estimate the total number of Asiatic Umbelliferae as approximately 2100. The borders of Asia are circumscribed in more or less usual volume - from the Ural Mts., including whole Caucasus, the East Aegean Islands (according Rechinger's line), the Bosphorus, Sinai, Arabia (but excluding Socotra) up to Chukotka, Japan, Philippines and Papua - New Guinea. A special option permits to arrange synonyms which could be divided for each species in several homotypic groups. This is especially actual for the Umbelliferae with their high synonymy in the numerous species. The structured geographical files with three-level hierarchy of territories (country, part of country, province) allows to receive and compare regional species lists. The database ASIUM is elaborated on the basis of FoxPro 2.5 software on PC Pentium™. |
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Moscow State University Laboratory of Computer Practical Work and Systems of the Department of Computative Mathematics and Cybernetics. Botanic Garden Laboratory of Plants Taxonomy and Geography. |
Московский Государственный Университет имени М.В. Ломоносова. Лаборатория Вычислительного Практикума и Информационных Систем факультета ВМиК Лаборатория систематики и географии растений ботанического сада. |
