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    DOI10.15468/6h8ucr

    Checklist dataset Registered November 18, 2020

    The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP)

    Published by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
    Govaerts R
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    Description

    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.

    Geographic scope

    Description

    Global

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    Taxonomic scope

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    Vascular Plants

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    • Rafaël Govaerts

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    • WCVP Family Reviewers

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    • P. Alrich

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    • L. Andersson

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    • Giovani Carlos Andrella

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    • Anne Bruneau

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    • S. Davies

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    • Manuel De la Estrella

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    • Lei Duan

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    • Ashley N. Egan

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    • José Iranildo

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    • Firouzeh Javadi

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    • Lucas Jordão

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    • A. Leeuwenberg

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    • Shi-Jin Li

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    • P. Linder

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    • H.E. Luther

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    • P.J.M. Maas

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    • H. Maas-van de Kamer

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    • Vidal Mansano

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    • José Francisco Montenegro Valls

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    • Annah Moteetee

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    • Bruce Murphy

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    GBIF registration

    Registration date
    November 18, 2020
    Metadata last modified
    July 03, 2025
    Publication date
    May 28, 2025
    Hosted by
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
    Installation
    Kew hosted datasets
    Endpoints
    Darwin Core Archive
    Preferred identifier
    10.15468/6h8ucr
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    Citation

    Govaerts R (2025). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6h8ucr accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-08-03.