The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information System (IBIS – an
Oracle Co. relational database management system). The
Australian National Herbarium,
Australian National Botanic Gardens,
Australian Biological Resources Study
Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) is a project undertaken by Parks Australia Division of Australia's Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA).
Background
ABRS was founded in 1973 from the recommendations ...
and the
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria coordinate the system.
The Australian Plant Census interface provides the currently accepted scientific names, their synonyms, illegitimate, misapplied and excluded names, as well as state distribution data. Each item of output hyperlinks to other online interfaces of the information system, including the
Australian Plant Name Index
The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, informati ...
(APNI) and the
Australian Plant Image Index
Australian(s) may refer to:
Australia
* Australia, a country
* Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia
** European Australians
** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists
** Aboriginal Aus ...
(APII).
[ The outputs of the Australian Plant Census interface provide information on all native and naturalised vascular plant ]taxa
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ...
of Australia, including its offshore islands, but excludes taxa only known in Australia from their cultivation and not (yet) naturalised.[
The classification of plant families is based on the ]Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III system
The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly Molecular phylogenetics, molecular-based, list of systems of plant taxonomy, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group ( ...
(2009).[
]
References
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{{Cite web , title= Australian Plant Census , publisher= Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria , url= http://www.chah.gov.au/apc/about-APC.html , access-date= 21 Nov 2013
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{{Cite web
, title=A census for Australian plants
, publisher=CSIRO
, url=http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Environment/Biodiversity/Plant-Census.aspx
, access-date=3 May 2012
, url-status=dead
, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130317231652/http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Environment/Biodiversity/Plant-Census.aspx
, archive-date=17 March 2013
]
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{{Cite web , title= Australian Plant Census (APC) progress , publisher= Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria , url= http://www.chah.gov.au/chah/apc/families-treated.html , access-date= 3 May 2012
]
External links
Australian Plant Census - APC
Online botany databases
Botany in Australia
Flora of Australia
Databases in Australia