Editing International Plant Names Index

{{short description|Database of plant names}}
{{Infobox website
| name           = International Plant Names Index
| logo           = [[Image:IPNI logo4 1.png|frameless]]
| url            = {{official URL}}
| commercial     = No
| type           = Database
| registration   = Not required
| owner          = Plant Names Project
| author         = The [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]], Harvard University Herbarium, and the Australian National Herbarium
| launch_date    = 1999
| current_status = 
}}

The '''International Plant Names Index''' ('''IPNI''') describes itself as "a [[database]] of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of [[seed plant]]s, [[fern]]s and [[lycophyte]]s." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of [[species]] and [[genus]].<ref name=IPNI-on-IK/> 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.<ref name=IPNI-schol-publ/><ref name=IPNI-orig-schol-publ/>

The IPNI also maintains a list of standardized [[Author citation (botany)|author abbreviations]]. These were initially based on [[Authors of Plant Names|Brummitt & Powell (1992)]], but new names and abbreviations are continually added.

==Description==
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]] ([[Australian Plant Name Index|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]].<ref name=IPNI-schol-publ/>

==See also==
*[[Plants of the World Online]]
*[[The World Flora Online]]
*[[Index Fungorum]]
*[[Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database]]

==References==
{{Reflist | refs=

<ref name=IPNI-on-IK>
{{Cite web | url= https://www.ipni.org/about | title= About | work= International Plant Names Index | access-date= 31 October 2022 }}
</ref>

<ref name=IPNI-schol-publ>
{{Cite journal
 | last = Lughadha
 | first = Eimear Nic
 | date = 29 April 2004
 | title = Towards a working list of all known plant species
 | journal = Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
 | volume = 359
 | issue = 1444
 | pages = 681–687
 | doi = 10.1098/rstb.2003.1446
 | pmid = 15253353
 | pmc= 1693359
 }}
</ref>

<ref name=IPNI-orig-schol-publ>
{{Cite journal
 | last1= Croft | first1= J.
 | last2= Cross | first2= N.
 | last3= Hinchcliffe | first3= S.
 | last4= Lughadha | first4= E. Nic
 | last5= Stevens | first5= P. F.
 | last6= West | first6= J. G.
 | last7= Whitbread | first7= G.
 |date=May 1999
 | title = Plant Names for the 21st Century: The International Plant Names Index, a Distributed Data Source of General Accessibility
 | journal = Taxon
 | volume = 48
 | issue = 2
 | pages = 317
 | doi = 10.2307/1224436
 | jstor = 1224436
| bibcode= 1999Taxon..48..317C
 }}
</ref>

}}

==External links==
* {{Official website}} of the IPNI – searchable for plant name, author name, publication
{{Wikidata property|P961|P586|P2008|position=left}}

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