The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP)


Short name
WCVP
Full name
The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP)
Version / Issued
13.0 / 2024-05-16
Contact
Digital Revolution, Kew
Publisher
Royal Botanic Gardens, KewRichmond, GB
Creator
Govaerts, Rafaël 0000-0003-2991-5282The Royal Botanic Gardens, KewLondon, GB
Contributor
Alrich, P.
Andersson, L.
Andrella, Giovani Carlos
Andrews, S.
Ashton, P.
Atahuachi Burgos, Margoth
Atkins, S.
Bagnatori Sartori, Ângela Lúcia
Balan, Anoop
Bandyopadhyay, Subir
Barbosa Pinto, Rafael
Barker, C.
Barrett, Russel L.
Barrie, F.
Barringer, K.A.
Bernet, P.
Berry, P.E.
Boatwright, James S.
Bogner, J.
Boos, J.
Bopp, W.
Borges, Leonardo M.
Boyce, P.
Bridson, D.
Briggs, B.G.
Broich, Steven L.
Bruhl, J.
Brullo, Savatore
Brullo, S.
Bruneau, Anne
Campacci, M.A.
Cardinal-McTeague, Warren
Cardoso, Domingos
Carr, G.
Carter, S.
Castro Silva, Isabella C.
Cervantes, Angélica
Cheek, M.
Choo, Le Min
Clarke, Ruth
Clayton, W.D.
Cobra e Monteiro, Thiago
Compton, James
Coombes, A.
Cosgriff, B.
Crameri, Simon
Cribb, P.
Croat, T.
Davies, S.
Davis, A.
De la Estrella, Manuel
De Lima, Haroldo C.
de Melo, Miranda
del Rosario García Peña, M.
Delgado-Salinas, Alfonso
Dorado, Oscar
Dransfield, J.
Duan, Lei
Egan, Ashley N.
Egorova, T.
Eriksson, R.
Esser, H.J.
Faden, R.
Falcão, Marcus
Farjon, A.
Farruggia, Frank
Fernanda Mazine, F.
Fernández Casas, F.J.
Figlar, R.
Fortuna-Perez, Ana Paula
Friesen, N.
Fritsch, R.
Fritsch, Peter
Frodin, D.G.
Gagnon, Edeline
George, Alex
Gerlach, G.
Gilbert, M.
Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro
Goetghebeur, P.
Gonçalves, E.
Goncharov, Mikhail
Goyder, D.
Grant, J.
Grayum, M.
Green, P.S.
Gregório, Bernarda de Souza
Grether, Rosaura
Häkkinen
Harman, K.T.
Harvey, Y.
Hay, A.
Henderson, A.
Hetterscheid, W.
Hill, K.D.
Hodel, D.R.
Hoffmann, P.
Hofreiter, A.
Holland Baptista, D.
Holst, B.K.
Hong-Wa, C.
Hunt, D.
Iranildo, José
Ittenbach, S.
Jaszczerski, J.C.
Javadi, Firouzeh
Jessup, L.
Jimenez-Mejias, P.
Jordão, Lucas
Kennedy, H.
Kington, S.
Klitgaard, Bente B.
Koopman, J.
Kramina, Tatiana
Kratochvil, K.
Kress, J.
Kreuz, K.
Lachenaud, Olivier
Lammers, T.G.
Lana C. Atunes, Lorena
Landolt, E.
Landrum, L.L.
Le Roux, M. Marianne
Ledis Linares, José
Leeuwenberg, A.
Lewis, Gwilym P.
Li, Shi-Jin
Linder, P.
Lock, J.M.
Lohmann, L.G.
Lowry, P.P.
Lucas, E.
Luther, H.E.
Maas, P.J.M.
Maas-van de Kamer, H.
Maas-van de Kamer, P.
Mansano, Vidal
Marcucci, R.
Mashego, Kagiso S.
Matsumoto, K.
Mattapha, Sawai
Mayo, S.
Montenegro Valls, José Francisco
Mori, S.
Moteetee, Annah
Murata, J.
Murphy, Bruce
Navarro, T.
Newman, M.
Newton, L.
Nguyen, V.D.
Nic Lughadha, E.
Nixon, K.
Nooteboom, H.
Ohashi, Kazuaki
Ohashi, Hiroyoshi
Pandey, Arun
Paton, A.
Pennington, T.D.
Pennington, R. Toby
Persson, K.
Pfahl, J.
Phillipson, P.
Phillipson, Pete
Povydysh, Maria
Prance & C.A.Sothers, G.T.
Pridgeon, A.M.
Proenca, C.
Radcliffe-Smith, A.
Rakotonirina, Nivohenintsoa
Ramos, Gustavo
Ranzato Filardi, Fabiana
Raz, L.
Robbrecht, E.
Ruhsam, M.
Sakuragui, C.M.
Sands, M.J.S.
Sanjappa, Munivenkatappa
Santos-Guerra, Arnoldo
Saunders, R.M.K.
Schanzer, I.
Schley, Rowan
Schrire, Brian
Schütz Rodrigues, Rodrigo
Seijo, Guillermo
Seleme, Elidiene Priscila
Sentürk, Ozan
Shaw, J.
Silva de Carvalho, Catarina
Silva Flores, Andréia
Silverstone-Sopkin, P.A.
Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni
Simpson, D.
Simpson, Charles E.
Singh, Y.
Sirichamorn, Yotsawate
Snijman, D.A.
Soares Gissi, Danilo
Soares-Silva, L.H.
Sobral, M.
Sokoloff, Dmitry
Sonké, B.
Spongberg, S.
Steinmann, V.
Stirton, Charles H.
Straub, Shannon
Subramaniam, Shweta
Tanaka, N.
Téllez-Valdés, O.
Thomas, M.
Thompson, S.
Thulin, Mats
Tigges, H.
Torke, Benjamin M.
Tulig,, M.
Ulloa, C.
Van der Burgt, Xander
van Welzen, P.
Vatanparast, Mohammad
Vink, W.
Vorontsova, M.
Wen, J.
Whitmoore, T.
Wilding, Nicholas
Wilkin, P.
Williamson, H.
Wilson, P.G.
Wilson, K.
Winitsky, Sophie
Wojciechowski, Martin
Wood, J.
Yi, Tingshuang
Zhang, D.X.
Zhang, Rong
Zhu, G.
Zona, S.A.
Zonneveld, B.J.M.
Taxonomic coverage

Abstract

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 scope
Vascular Plants
Geographic scope
Global
Temporal scope
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License
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Checklist Confidence
Completeness
95
ISSN
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Identifiers
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Citation
Govaerts, R. (2025). 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, R. Adlard, et al., Catalogue of Life (Version 2025-04-10). Catalogue of Life, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgplc-4nz
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