International Plant Names Index

International Plant Names Index
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
Launched	1999

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.^[1] 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.^[2]^[3]

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.

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