Partners & Institutions

The Partners of the project are leading specialists on Melastomataceae. It will be a pilot for collaborative taxonomic revision, done interactively in real-time by multiple users on a single database. The cooperating institutions involved include:

Botanische Staatssammlung München (Germany)	Susanne S. Renner (lead)
	Dagmar Triebel (information technology)
California Academy of Sciences (USA)	Frank Almeda
	Douglas Stone
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis (USA)	Carmen Ulloa Ulloa
New York Botanical Garden (USA)	Fabián A. Michelangeli
Universidade Federal do Paraná – herbarium UPCB (Brazil)	Renato Goldenberg
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (Colombia)	Humberto Mendoza Cifuentes

Further partners are welcome.