IAPT International Association for Plant Taxonomy

IAPT - International Association for Plant Taxonomy

Projects effected or supported by IAPT

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
The Tokyo-Code is now becoming available on-line.

Taxonomic Literature, second edition (TL-2) and supplements
An on-line version is not yet available. Some data are available in the Publication Database at Harvard (see below).

Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)
The Index Nominum Genericorum (ING), a collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution, was initiated in 1954 as a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

Index Herbariorum
The on-line version from the New York Botanical Garden has recently beeb updated and now includes data for 1300 herbaria in 85 countries.

Indices Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium Project
[also:]
Vascular plant suprageneric names arranged by genera and families
The project is supported by the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Norton-Brown Herbarium of the University of Maryland.

Names in Current Use (NCU)
The NCU-3 database (Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera) is now on-line.

Draft BioCode
Fourth draft of the prospective international rules for the scientific names of organisms.

IOPI Global Plant Checklist
IAPT has contributed to the prototyping of the IOPI GPC Database.

Databases which have incorporated data from IAPT publications (examples):

The Botanical Collectors Database at Harvard
"The names and information on collectors and collecting teams was obtained from numerous sources, but the largest number of records is derived from the International Association for Plant Taxonomy's (IAPT) Index Herbariorum series, Index Herbariorum, Part II, Collectors A-Z and from the list of staff members in the 8th edition of Index Herbariorum, Part I, The Herbaria of the World. The records make use of the 7-bit ASCII character set. Names that use diacritical marks have been flattened to their nearest ascii equivalant."

The Publications database at Harvard
Includes the titles and abbreviations of publications from Taxonomic Literature, second edition (TL2) (Stafleu and Cowan, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1985, 1988), and Taxonomic Literature, edition 2, Supplement (TL2/S) (Stafleu and Mennega, 1992, 1993, 1995).