Scientific Plant Names Dictionary
Version: 2.2 (5 January 2009)
This electronic dictionary file is generated from the information systems at the Western Australian Herbarium. It aims to provide an authoritative listing to aid with the correct spelling of these scientific names within common word processing software.
The dictionary file wacensus.dic contains 10,751 entries representing botanical names, at various taxonomic ranks from family to infraspecies, for the native and naturalised flora occurring in Western Australia.
This compares with 9,509 entries in 2007, the first version to include non-vascular plant and fungi names now on the Census of Western Australian Plants. However, note that in the 2008 version both current and synonymous names have been included, which accounts for a large proportion of the additional 1242 entries.
This dictionary is summarised from 16,032 current names, drawn from entries for 11,336 dicotyledons, 2,613 monocotyledons, 119 pteridophytes, 28 conifers and cycads, 180 bryophytes, 984 alga, 763 lichens and 9 fungi. It also includes 1,449 alien plant names. An additional 170 moss names were available to source dictionary entries from this year, thanks to the publication of Biggs and Chappill's 'Annotated census of the mosses of the Perth Region' in Nuytsia 18: 1-30.
Notes
- the dictionary file now contains 105,340 characters, and may not be compatible with word processors limited to a single 65,535 character dictionary file.
- Previous releases of this dictionary file were encoded in UTF-8 (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8). This minor version release also has the dictionary file in strict Unicode format, for compatibility with recent software; eg. MS-Word 2007). So, if installing the wacensus.dic (UNICODE) file doesn't work for you, remove it and add the wacensus-utf8.dic (UTF8) version instead.
Compiled by Alex R. Chapman; last updated on 19 February 2009.
