INDEX KEWENSIS

To help you find:

• the published name of any seed-bearing plant (genus or species level) anywhere in the world, its author and bibliographic reference

• records for a family, genera in a family ,or species in a genus

• nomenclatorial chronology of a genus

• synonym(s) to aid in a search of past publications or descriptions of a plant.
• (Note: IKew does not claim to be an authority on synonymy.)

• a list of the genera and/or species described in a specific publication (e.g. those in a particular flora) to determine if you need to obtain that publication.

• the region(s) or habitat where the species occurs (or at least where the type was found).

• all the genera/species a certain author has described.

• which plant groups an author studied/described, in the APN record.

• all the publications in which an author has published species descriptions.

• an example of a printed report generated by IKew.