The world’s largest inventory of known (and accepted) plant species (names)
Leipzig researchers compile the world’s largest inventory of known plant species. It contains 1,315,562 names of vascular plants. It extends the number of recognised plant species and subspecies by some 70,000 – equivalent to about 20%.
LCVP is not “just” an update of TPL (which has terminated its updates as of 2013), it is a significant improvement and increased the amount of known synonyms by 85.000 names. Compared to TPL, LCVP resolved 180.000 plant names, which either in the past could not be “translated” into an existing and accepted plant name or had other issues (e.g. circular name information, different authors for same name).
Reference publication
Martin Freiberg, Marten Winter, Alessandro Gentile, Alexander Zizka, Alexandra Nora Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra Weigelt & Christian Wirth
LCVP, the Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants
www.nature.com/scientificdata/ (2020) 7:416 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00702-z
Source
Nature Ecology and Evolution