International Plant Names Index
Also known as IPNI
database of plant names
Key facts
- Type of site
- Database
- Owner
- Plant Names Project
- Created by
- The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , Harvard University Herbarium, and the Australian National Herbarium
- Url
- www .ipni .org
- Commercial
- No
- Registration
- Not required
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.ipni.org
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- Alexa rank
- 542480
- API endpoint URL
- data1.kew.org/reconciliation/reconcile/IpniName
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Article
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. 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.
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.