Database Details : IOPI Global Plant Checklist

Full name: IOPI Global Plant Checklist
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.