Rafael Herman Anna Govaerts

As head of the Plant & Fungal Names Team at Kew, my role involves compilation, curation and dissemination of core datasets: IPNI (International Plant Names Index) which provides nomenclatural data. WCVP (World Checklist of Vascular Plants) which provides Taxonomic data, and POWO (Plants of the World Online) which provides Floristic data including descriptions and images. These data are freely available and core component of the majority of online plant databases. I manage a global network of reviewers and compilers for WCVP resulting in peer reviewed and high quality data. My research focuses on large scale questions that can be answered using the extensive WCVP dataset.