Australian Plant Name Index
{{Short description|Australian online plant name database}}
{{Ref improve|date=June 2022}}
The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, information from the Australian Plant Census including distribution by state, links to other resources such as specimen collection maps and plant photographs, and the facility for notes and comments on other aspects.
History
Originally the brainchild of Nancy Tyson Burbidge, it began as a four-volume printed work consisting of 3,055 pages and containing over 60,000 plant names. Compiled by Arthur Chapman, it was part of the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS). In 1991 it was made available as an online database and handed over to the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Two years later, responsibility for its maintenance was given to the newly formed Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research.{{cite web |title=Information about Australia's Flora Botanical Databases: APNI - Australian Plant Information |url=https://www.cpbr.gov.au/apni/index.html |website=Australian Plant Name Index |publisher=Australian National Botanic Gardens |access-date=13 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228064837/https://cpbr.gov.au/apni/index.html |archive-date=28 February 2023 |language=en}}
Scope
Recognised by Australian herbaria as the authoritative source for Australian plant nomenclature, it is the core component of Australia's Virtual Herbarium, a collaborative project with A$10 million funding, aimed at providing integrated online access to the data and specimen collections of Australia's major herbaria.
- Australian Plant Name Index (APNI),{{Cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services|title=Vascular Plants|website=Biodiversity.org.au|access-date=10 June 2022}} a full query interface that delivers full results, with no automatic interpretation, and
- What's Its Name (WIN),{{cite web |title=What's its Name? Search: Integrated Biodiversity Information System (IBIS) |url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/win |website=www.anbg.gov.au |publisher=Australian National Botanic Gardens;Australian National Herbarium|access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=2016-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807194120/http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/win}} a less powerful query interface that delivers concise results, augmented with automatic {{cn span|(and not always correct) inference as to the currency.|date=March 2023}}
See also
References
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{{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= 317–324
| doi = 10.2307/1224436
| issn = 0040-0262
| jstor=1224436
}}
{{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
| issn = 0962-8436
}}
{{Cite web | url= http://www.ipni.org/about_the_index.html#data-sources | title= About the Index: Data Sources: Geographical and historical coverage: Australian Plant Name Index | work= International Plant Name Index | access-date= 21 November 2013}}
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Further reading
- {{Cite book |first=Arthur |last=Chapman |date=1991 |title=Australian Plant Name Index |series=Australian Flora and Fauna, Number: 12−15 |location=Canberra |publisher=Australian Government Publishing Service |url=https://www.dcceew.gov.au/science-research/abrs/publications/flora-fauna/12-15}} In 4 volumes:
- {{cite book |last1=Chapman |first1=Arthur |title=Australian plant name index: A−C |date=1991 |isbn=978-0-644-13367-8|volume=1|series=Australian Flora and Fauna Series|id=Series number 12|author1-mask=0 |publisher= |location=}}
- {{cite book |last1=Chapman |first1=Arthur |title=Australian plant name index: D−J |date=1991 |isbn=978-0-644-13368-5|volume=2|series=Australian Flora and Fauna Series|id=Series number 13|author1-mask=0|publisher= |location=}}
- {{cite book |last1=Chapman |first1=Arthur |title=Australian plant name index: K−P |date=1991 |isbn=978-0-644-13369-2|volume=3|series=Australian Flora and Fauna Series|id=Series number 14|author1-mask=0|publisher= |location=}}
- {{cite book |last1=Chapman |first1=Arthur |title=Australian plant name index: Q−Z |date=1991 |isbn=978-0-644-13370-8|volume=4|series=Australian Flora and Fauna Series|id=Series number 15|author1-mask=0|publisher= |location=}}
External links
{{Wikidata property|P5984}}
- [https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apni Official Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) website] — full detail search.
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Category:Online botany databases