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Australian Plant Name Index

Search - Full Listing



 

( %=wildcard   eg.   %gibbsiae%   or   Leptospermum s%)

 

TAXON_NAME

Genus name ± species name

AUTHOR_ABBREV

 

FAMILY

 

PUBLICATION

 

YEAR

 

Exclude_cultivars

Uncheck to include published cultivar names

 

Only_cultivars

Check to list only published cultivar names

 

USERNAME

Only required for detailed locality data

PASSWORD

 


Using APNI

TAXON NAME – can be a genus name or genus and species, or wildcard search ( % symbol is wildcard).
ie    Grevillea robusta     Grevillea ro%     Grevillea       Grev%

AUTHOR_ABBREV – the recognised abbreviation for the author, ie F.Muell. for Ferdinand von Mueller or L. for Linnaeus

FAMILY – the family to which the plant belongs, searches can be made on 'family' but beware that very large outputs could be geneerated.

PUBLICATION – the journal or publication in which this plant name was published.

YEAR – the year of publication.

Exclude cultivars – the default setting is for cultivars not to be shown in search results, un-tick if you want cultivars shown.

Only cultivars – check this box if you only want cultivars displayed.

USER NAME & PASSWORD – registered users get links to detailed records of specimens in the Australian National Herbarium (ANH).

APNI output notes

Epbc Impact: – this refers to any impact for this name under legislative schedules of the Australian Government's Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

APC Comment: – this refers to any comments from the Australian Plant Census (APC) consensus census being developed by all the State and Commonwealth Australian herbaria.

APC Dist.: – this is the distribution by State according to the Australian Plant Census (APC) as agreed by the various State and Commonwealth herbaria.

Number in bottom left of output results: – this is a computer generated number that uniquely identifies each entry in APNI.

Map CANB collections – will print an Australia-wide distribution map of holdings of this species in the Australian National Herbarium (ANH).

– clicking on this camera icon will show an image if it is represented in the Australian Plant Image Index (APII).