International_Organization_for_Plant_Information

International Organization for Plant Information

International Organization for Plant Information

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The International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI) is an international organization founded on September 20, 1991.[1] It runs a series of collaborative international projects aimed at establishing databases of plant classification information and is committee of the International Union of Biological Sciences.[2]

The Global Plant Checklist was its first objective to provide a list of all plants by merging data from existing sources. This required development of data standards as well as international co-operation, starting in 1993.[3]

Later aims included the Species Plantarum Project to record taxonomic information about all the vascular plants in the world.[citation needed]

Its dataset was later incorporated in the Catalogue of Life.


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  1. "International Organization for Plant Information". www1.biologie.uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  2. "International Organization for Plant Information". www1.biologie.uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  3. "Global Plant Checklist: Data Definitions". IOPI. Retrieved 28 April 2020.

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