International Organization for Plant Information

The International Organization for Plant Information is an international organization founded on September 20, 1991. It runs a series of collaborative international projects aimed at establishing databases of plant classification information and is a committee of the International Union of Biological Sciences.
The Global Plant Checklist was its first objective is to provide a list of all plants by merging data from existing sources. This required development of data standards as well as international co-operation, starting in 1993.
Later aims included the Species Plantarum Project to record taxonomic information about all the vascular plants in the world.
Its dataset was later incorporated into the .