''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names ( scientific names) in the

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. the project is based at the

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,10 ...

, one of three partners along with

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and the Institute of Microbiology,

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...

. It is somewhat comparable to the

International Plant Names Index The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It inclu ...

(IPNI), in which the Royal Botanic Gardens is also involved. A difference is that where IPNI does not indicate

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s, the ''Index Fungorum'' does indicate the status of a name. In the returns from the search page a currently correct name is indicated in green, while others are in blue (a few, aberrant usages of names are indicated in red). All names are linked to pages giving the correct name, with lists of synonyms. ''Index Fungorum'' is one of three nomenclatural repositories recognized by the

Nomenclature Committee for Fungi International Botanical Congress (IBC) is an international meeting of botanists in all scientific fields, authorized by the International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies (IABMS) and held every six years, with the location rotati ...

; the others are ''

MycoBank MycoBank is an online database, documenting new mycological names and combinations, eventually combined with descriptions and illustrations. It is run by the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Utrecht. Each novelty, after being screened ...

'' and ''

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''.

Current names in ''Index Fungorum'' (''Species Fungorum'')

The main part of ''Index Fungorum'' is intended to be a global list of all fungus names which have ever been validly defined, but many of them are conflicting or no longer used. ''Species Fungorum'' is a closely related project based at the

Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 ...

supported by CABI to decide a consistent subset of the ''Index Fungorum'' names which can be recommended as currently valid. It is possible to search in either the ''Index Fungorum'' or the ''Species Fungorum'' list separately and the ''Index Fungorum'' results also give a cross-reference to ''Species Fungorum'' where an entry is available - names without such a reference are generally only of historical interest and should not be considered reliable for present use.See the pop-up "Help with searching" at .

Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs)

''Index Fungorum'' provides Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) for records in its database.

Services

''Index Fungorum'' provides a

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protocol web service for searching its database and retrieving records. A

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file describing the services is available.

References

External links

{{Wikidata property, P1391 Mycology Online taxonomy databases

Current names in ''Index Fungorum'' (''Species Fungorum'')

Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs)

Services

See also

References

External links