5-481: 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
10-919: The currently accepted scientific names, their synonyms, illegitimate, misapplied and excluded names, as well as state distribution data. Each item of output hyperlinks to other online interfaces of the information system, including the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and the Australian Plant Image Index (APII). The outputs of the Australian Plant Census interface provide information on all native and naturalised vascular plant taxa of Australia, including its offshore islands, but excludes taxa only known in Australia from their cultivation and not (yet) naturalised. The classification of plant families
15-659: The facility for notes and comments on other aspects. 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
20-494: The vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information System (IBIS – an Oracle Co. relational database management system ). The Australian National Herbarium , Australian National Botanic Gardens , Australian Biological Resources Study and the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria coordinate the system. The Australian Plant Census interface provides
25-587: Was given to the newly formed Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. 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 . Two query interfaces are offered: Australian Plant Census The Australian Plant Census ( APC ) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of
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