Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

Australian Plant Name Index

Project Website

http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/databases/apni.html

Project Description

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a list of all published names of Australian vascular plants and their bibliographic and typification details.

There is a facility to search for records in the active database that have a particular name or match a particular pattern. The pattern matching is based on the SQL database conventions, so that the character "%" is a wildcard for any string of characters and "_" is a wildcard for a single character.

The APNI database also contains the name records of the Census of Australian Vascular Plants (CAVP). CAVP names are flagged in APNI under the heading "Census". A "Y" indicates that the name is a currently accepted name; an "N" indicates that the name is not currently accepted.

The web versions of APNI are not case-sensitive and a trailing wild-card is assumed. The distribution by state and by region within state follows the published version of the CAVP.

Contact

Unknown
Webmaster
Australian National Botanic Gardens

Project Type

Data Provider

Project Language

English

Project Start Date

01-Feb-1991

Key Inputs

Information from publications

Key Infrastructure

Web site

Key Technologies

SQL database

Key Processes

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National - Australia

Taxonomic Scope

Kingdom - Plantae

Comments

Collaborative with International Plant Name Index. Alternative front end is "Whats its name", but accesses the same information.

Record Status

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