Australian Plant Name Index

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.

APNI does not offer an 'opinion' on which of the names are currently accepted.

The 'Australian Plant Census' (not completed) does attempt to put forward a consensus view from the major Australian herbaria as to which names from APNI are currently recognised for the Australian flora.

The web versions of APNI are not case-sensitive and a trailing wild-card is assumed.

There is also What's Its Name? – a simplified and concise database of plant names and name changes for Australia.

	Be careful! Queries to the database may return very large files.

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Updated 12 August, 2008 by webmaster (cpbr-info@anbg.gov.au)

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