search_plants

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declared in 0.1.0

Search POWO (Plants of the World Online, by Kew) — the authoritative global plant taxonomy database — for accepted plant names and synonyms by scientific or common name. Returns matching taxa with their family, rank, whether the name is accepted, and a POWO fqId you can pass to get_taxon. Keyless. Complements GBIF/iNaturalist with curated botanical taxonomy.

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Max results to return (default 15)."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Scientific or common plant name, e.g. \"Quercus robur\" or \"English oak\"."
    }
  }
}

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mcp-powo

https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-powo

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