Database Details : IOPI Global Plant Checklist
Full name: | IOPI Global Plant Checklist |
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Short name: | IOPI-GPC |
Version: | 10.0, Aug 2007 |
Release date: | 2007-08-01 |
Authors/editors: | Wilson K.L. & Berendsohn W.G. (eds) |
Taxonomic coverage: | Plantae - Tracheophyta - Liliopsida - Juncaceae Tracheophyta - Magnoliopsida - Casuarinaceae, Chrysobalanaceae, Irvingiaceae, Myrtaceae pro parte |
English name of the group: | Five families of seed plants |
Number of living species | 1,845 |
Number of living infraspecific taxa | 0 |
Number of extinct species: | 0 |
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
Number of synonyms: | 2,137 |
Number of common names: | 171 |
Total number of names: | 4,153 |
Abstract: | The International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI) aims to produce a database of all vascular plant species and other products such as a World Flora. The checklist currently holds over 200,000 names and implements the innovative potential taxon concept. Data for 5 flowering plant families are included in this Annual Checklist. Casuarinaceace data supplied by K.L. Wilson and L.A.S. Johnson† (Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney), 1996. Chrysobalanaceae data supplied by G.T. Prance & C.A. Sothers (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew), 2003. Eucalypt data supplied by K.D. Hill & L.C. Stanberg (Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney), 2004. Irvingiaceae data supplied by D.J. Harris (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh), 1999. Juncaceae data compiled by J. Kirschner (Institute of Botany, Pruhonice), 2002. |
Organization: | International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI) |
Website: |
http://www.iopi.org |
Bibliographic citation: | Wilson K.L. & Berendsohn W.G. (eds) (2017). IOPI Global Plant Checklist (version 10.0, Aug 2007). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |