About IAPT

IAPT is a non-profit organisation founded in 1950 to promote, support and facilitate taxonomic, systematic and nomenclatural research into algae, fungi and plants.​ It currently has nearly 1000 members, in many countries around the world.

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The Association is managed by a Council of officers elected by its members. Councillors serve a six-year term, as set out in the IAPT Constitution. The IAPT Council is supported by a secretariat, with offices in Bratislava (Slovakia) and Washington DC (USA).

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IAPT works with other organisations to promote biological sciences internationally, and is a member of the International Union of Biological Societies (IUBS), a non-profit, non-governmental peak body founded in 1919. IAPT has joined the World Flora Online Consortium and encourages our members and other botanists to contribute to this important effort.

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IAPT also works closely with national organisations throughout the world that have similar goals.