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Database of plant names
International Plant Names Index
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Type of site
| Database
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Owner
| Plant Names Project
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Created by
| The
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
, Harvard University Herbarium, and the Australian National Herbarium
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URL
| www
.ipni
.org
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Commercial
| No
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Registration
| Not required
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Launched
| 1999
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The
International Plant Names Index
(
IPNI
) describes itself as "a
database
of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of
seed plants
,
ferns
and
lycophytes
." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of
species
and
genus
.
[1]
It includes basic bibliographical details associated with the names. Its goals include eliminating the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names.
[2]
[3]
The IPNI also maintains a list of standardized
author abbreviations
. These were initially based on
Brummitt & Powell (1992)
, but new names and abbreviations are continually added.
Description
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IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
(
Index Kewensis
), The
Harvard University Herbaria
(Gray Herbarium Index), and the
Australian National Herbarium
(
APNI
). The IPNI database is a collection of the names registered by the three cooperating institutions and they work towards standardizing the information. The standard of author abbreviations recommended by the
International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
is Brummitt and Powell's
Authors of Plant Names
. A digital and continually updated list of authors and abbreviations can be consulted online at IPNI.
The IPNI provides names that have appeared in scholarly publications, with the objective of providing an index of published names rather than prescribing the accepted
botanical nomenclature
.
[2]
See also
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References
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- ^
"About"
.
International Plant Names Index
. Retrieved
31 October
2022
.
- ^
a
b
Lughadha, Eimear Nic (29 April 2004).
"Towards a working list of all known plant species"
.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
.
359
(1444): 681?687.
doi
:
10.1098/rstb.2003.1446
.
PMC
1693359
.
PMID
15253353
.
- ^
Croft, J.; Cross, N.; Hinchcliffe, S.; Lughadha, E. Nic; Stevens, P. F.; West, J. G.; Whitbread, G. (May 1999). "Plant Names for the 21st Century: The International Plant Names Index, a Distributed Data Source of General Accessibility".
Taxon
.
48
(2): 317.
doi
:
10.2307/1224436
.
JSTOR
1224436
.
External links
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- Official website
of the IPNI ? searchable for plant name, author name, publication
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