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literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI <strong>does not</strong> recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, see the <a href="http://www.chah.gov.au/apc/about-APC.html"><strong>Australian Plant Census</strong></a> (APC). Information available from APNI includes:</p> <ul> <li>Scientific plant names;</li> <li>Author details;</li> <li>Original publication details (protologue), with links to a PDF in some cases via a book-icon <img src="../images/icons/book-icon-2.gif" alt="book icon" width="31" height="19" align="absmiddle"></li> <li>Subsequent usage of the name in the scientific literature (in an Australian context)</li> <li>Typification details;</li> <li>An APC-tick-icon <img src="../chah/apc_icon_sml.png" alt="APC-tick" width="48" height="22" align="absmiddle"> showing which, if any, concept has been accepted for the APC</li> <li>State distribution (from the Australian Plant Census (APC));</li> <li>Relevant comments and notes;</li> <li>Links to other information such as plant distributions, descriptions and images via a camera-icon <img src="../images/icons/camera.2.gif" alt="camera icon" width="34" height="27" align="absmiddle"> where available.</li> </ul> <p>APNI is maintained at the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research with staff, resources and financial support from the Australian National Herbarium, Australian National Botanic Gardens and the Australian Biological Resources Study. The CANBR, ANBG and ABRS collaborate to further the updating and delivery of APNI and APC.</p> <p>In recent years APNI has also incorporated names for cultivars derived from the Australian flora </p> <h3>Search the APNI database</h3> <blockquote> <h4><a href="http://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apni"><strong> APNI Search</strong></a> </h4> </blockquote></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p> </p> <table width="90%" border="2" align="center" cellpadding="10" bordercolor="006600"> <tr> <td><h3><a href="/biography/burbidge-nancy.html"><img src="/biography/biog-pics/burbidge.portrait.gif" alt="Dr Nancy Burbidge" width="195" height="308" hspace="10" vspace="5" border="0" align="left"></a>History of APNI </h3> <p><img src="../databases/apni-about/apni-books.jpg" width="222" height="164" align="right" vspace="5" hspace="10" alt="books: Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) ">The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) was the inspiration of one of Australia's most prominent botanists, <a href="/biography/burbidge-nancy.html">Dr Nancy Burbidge</a>. It was compiled over a period of 15 years from literature in herbaria and botanical libraries around the world, and published in 1991 as a 4-volume set of 3,055 pages, treating over 60,000 names. Originally compiled by <a href="/biography/chapman-arthur-david.html">Mr Arthur Chapman</a> of the Australian Biological Resources Study (<a href="http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/" target="_blank">ABRS</a>), the underlying database of APNI was transferred to the Australian National Botanic Gardens (<a href="/anbg/index.html" target="_blank">ANBG</a>) in 1991 as its foundation dataset, and as a public-good Internet resource.</p> <p>Following the formation of the collaborative Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, (now <a href="/cpbr/index.html" target="_blank">CANBR</a>) in 1993, APNI was adopted as the standard dataset for plant names for the Australian National Herbarium, and as a key resource for the <i>Flora of Australia</i> program of ABRS.</p> <p>Dr Burbidge (left), the published APNI volumes (right) </p></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <h3 align="left">List of all Australian plant names</h3> <p align="left"><font color="#FF0000"><b>Be careful - these link to very large files</b></font></p> <p align="left">Search engines will not find plant names hidden in a database. To overcome this problem the links below are to full lists, by alphabet, of all the names known to have been used for Australian plants up until 2003, it is linked here mainly for search engines. It is NOT a checklist of the Australian flora - many of the names are synonyms, making a total list of over 65,000 names for a flora estimated at about 20,000 species.</p> <p> <center> <table BORDER cellpadding=4 width="90%" > <tr> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniA.html">A</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniB.html">B</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniC.html">C</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniD.html">D</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniE.html">E</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniF.html">F</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniG.html">G</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniH.html">H</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniI.html">I</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniJ.html">J</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniK.html">K</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniL.html">L</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniM.html">M</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniN.html">N</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniO.html">O</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniP.html">P</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniQ.html">Q</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniR.html">R</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniS.html">S</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniT.html">T</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniU.html">U</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniV.html">V</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniW.html">W</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniX.html">X</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniY.html">Y</a></font></b></td> <td><b><font size=+1><a href="/apni/apniZ.html">Z</a></font></b></td> </tr> </table> </center> <p> </p> <p></p> <p><a href="/apni/apni.html">Total plant name list for Australia</a> (7,203 KB)</p> <br> <p><a href="#top">^ top</a></p>   <br>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="sitemap"> <tr> <td width="14%" valign="top"> <div class=sitemapnav><a href="/databases/index.html">PLANT DATABASES</a></div> <ul class=subnav> <li class=navlist><a href="/apni/index.html">Plant Name Index (APNI)</a></li> <li class=navlist><a href="https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/taxonomy">Australian Plant Census (APC)</a></li> <li class=navlist><a href="/acra/apni-cultivars.html">Cultivar Names</a></li> <li class=navlist><a href="/acra/acra-list-2009.html">Registered Cultivars</a></li> <li class=navlist><a href="/common.names/">Common Names</a></li> <li class=navlist><a href="http://avh.chah.org.au/">Virtual Herbarium (AVH)</a></li> 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