Plant Names

Australian Botanical Names

• What's Its Name? - a concise database of plant names and name changes for Australian flowering plants.
• The Australian Plant Name Index - entry point if you are not familiar with the Index and its use.
• Search the Australian Plant Name Index - abbreviated layout - a view of the database listing only the names and authors for every higher plant taxon in Australia, native or naturalised.
• Australian Plant Name Index - full (APNI) - a database listing the name and publication reference for every higher plant taxon in Australia, native or naturalised.
• About the Australian Plant Name Index - its use, history and database structure.
• Australian Plant Census - a work-in-progress, developing an agreed list between all Australian herbaria.
• Names for eucalypts - from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
• Catalogue of Australian Mosses - the name and publication references for mosses.
• Checklist of Australian Lichens - the names and publication references for lichens.
• Census of Freshwater Algae in Australia - maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
• Australian Marine Algae Name Index - maintained by Murdoch University, Perth.
• Census of Plants in Australian Botanic Gardens - 1992 listings for major botanic gardens.

Australian Common Names

• Database of Common Names of Australian Plants - not complete (Frames version)

Australian Cultivar Names

• List of registered cultivars of Australian native plants.
• The Australian Cultivar Registration Authority (ACRA)

Australian Plant Breeders Rights

• For Information about Australian Plant Breeders Rights - http://www.affa.gov.au/pbr
• For PBR database search - http://www.affa.gov.au/content/pbr_database/search.cfm
• See also Plant Varieties Journal

Cultivars - International

• International Registation Authorities (IRAs) by genus: http://www.ishs.org/icra/index.htm
• An explanation of the work of IRAs may be found on: http://www.ishs.org/icra/index.htm

Worldwide Plant Names

• Find information about the scientific publication of plant names worldwide - International Plant Names Index (IPNI). http://www.ipni.org/searches/query_ipni.shtml
• International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, (ST LOUIS CODE) adopted by the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress St Louis, Missouri, July-August 1999:
  http://www.bgbm.org/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm