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title: The Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants
alias: LCVP
version: 3.01
released: 2022-11-07      
description: | 
  The Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants provides an updated and much improved reference list 
  for all described vascular plant species globally. 
  We used ~4,500 publications, existing relevant databases and available studies on molecular phylogenetics to construct a robust reference backbone. 
  A guiding principle during the compilation of the LCVP was to avoid polyphyletic genera, which are frequent in TPL, 
  either by splitting genera (e.g. separating Goeppertia from Calathea) 
  or fusing them (e.g. Stapelia and Duvalia in Ceropegia). 
  However, we did not recombine any species name in the LCVP and in cases of unclear phylogenetic position of genera, we used the conservative (i.e. existing) name.

  For details on methods see https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00702-z.

organisations:         
  - department: Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity / Botanical Garden
    name: Institute of Biology, Leipzig University
    city: Leipzig
    country: Germany
  - name: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
    city: Leipzig
    country: Germany

# single point of contact for questions
contact: 
  - givenName: Bruno
    familyName: Vilela
    email: bvilela.bv@gmail.com

authors:
  - givenName: Bruno
    familyName: Vilela
    email: bvilela.bv@gmail.com
  - givenName: Alessandro
    familyName: Gentile
    email: gentile.alessandro@gmail.com
    orcid: 
  - givenName: Martin
    familyName: Freiberg
    email: freiberg@uni-leipzig.de
    orcid: 0000-0002-6036-5293
  - givenName: Marten
    familyName: Winter
    orcid: 
  - givenName: Alexander
    familyName: Zizka
    email: alexander.zizka@idiv.de
    orcid: 
geographicScope: global
taxonomicScope: vascular plants
website: https://github.com/idiv-biodiversity/LCVP
code: botanical
license: CC-BY
source:
  - id: paper
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00702-z