The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP)
Citation
Govaerts, R. (2024). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) (version 13.0). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life (Version 2024-11-18). Catalogue of Life, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgh3g-4nzDescription
The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is a global consensus view of all known vascular plant species (flowering plants, conifers, ferns, clubmosses and firmosses). WCVP aims to represent a global consensus view of current plant taxonomy by reflecting the latest published taxonomies while incorporating the opinions of taxonomists based around the world. WCVP is built on the nomenclatural data provided by the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), which is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium, combined with the taxonomic data provided by an international collaborative programme with a large number of contributors from around the world. Our thanks go to the compilers, editors and reviewers of IPNI and WCVP and in particular the thousands of users who have contributed corrections over the past decades, improving those data for the global user community.
Taxonomic Coverages
Vascular Plants
Geographic Coverages
Global
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