Kancheepuram (Kanchi) Natarajan Gandhi (born January 28, 1948 in India)[1] is Senior Nomenclature Registrar and Bibliographer at Harvard University in the Department of Botany in the Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries (HUH and HUL). He manages a botanical classification project to identify and classify all plants in the Western world (the New World) through his role at Harvard,[2] where Harvard’s newly adopted “open-access digitization policy”[3] assigns to the public domain most of the images of plants he and others have classified and preserved.
He is famous for his long-held role as part of the collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium in developing the International Plant Names Index, a database of the names and associated bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns, and lycophytes.
