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99 The naming of organisms (and plant communities)<br />

independent: (prok.) of names, ones that do not constitute homonyms<br />

because they are subject to different Codes.<br />

indeterminate, -a, [indet.]: indeterminate; of specimens or species that<br />

cannot be identified; see undetermined.<br />

index: an alphabetical listing of the names or subjects in a work, usually<br />

with references to the page numbers on which they are treated; see<br />

also Official Index.<br />

index fossil: (paleo., not nomenclatural) a fossil characteristic of an<br />

assemblage zone and which as far as is known is restricted to it.<br />

Index Bergeyana: (prok., obsol.) a catalogue of the thousands of bacterial<br />

names proposed, which was published in 1966; see Approved List.<br />

Index Fungorum: the de facto world mycological nomenclator (q.v.),<br />

which aims to include all names proposed for fungi since 1753; now<br />

maintained by a partnership of CBS—Fungal Diversity Centre,<br />

CAB International, and Landcare Research; available free at<br />

http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/indexfungorumpartnership.ht<br />

m.<br />

Index Herbariorum: a catalogue of the herbaria (q.v.; including fungaria)<br />

throughout the world, prepared and published by the International<br />

Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), and providing<br />

unambiguous abbreviations for the collections included; available<br />

free at http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium_list.php.<br />

Index Kewensis: a catalogue of seed plant names at the rank of family and<br />

below published since 1753, prepared by the Royal Botanic<br />

Gardens, Kew, which started publication in 1893, and also now<br />

includes ferns and fern allies; digitized in the International Plant<br />

Names Index (q.v.).<br />

Index Nominum Genericorum Plantarum, [ING]: (bot.) a catalogue of<br />

validly published names of genera in all groups of organisms<br />

covered by the Code, and prepared by the International Association<br />

for Plant Taxonomy in collaboration with the Smithsonian<br />

Institution; available online at http://botany.si.edu/ing/).<br />

Index Seminum: (bot.) a Seed List (q.v.).

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