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.
2017 - In March 2017, during a three-week skill-building tour of India designed to teach and transfer Greek and Latin botanical classification skills to Indian botanists, Dr. Gandhi received a Memento at
Pune.
Wiersema, J., Gandhi, K. (385–388) "Proposals to amend Articles 32.2, 23.5, and 24.2 to clarify the treatment of transcribed Greek terminations of epithets". Taxon (2016).
McNeill, J., Barrie, F., Gandhi, K., Hollowell, V., Redhead, S., Söderström, L., Zarucchi, J. "Report of the special committee on publications using a largely mechanical method of selection of types (Art. 10.5(b)) (especially under the American code)". Taxon (2016).
McNeill, J., Barrie, F., Gandhi, K., Hollowell, V., Redhead, S., Söderström, L., Zarucchi, J. "(391–396) proposals to amend the provisions of the code on selection of types of generic names using a largely mechanical method". Taxon (2016)
Flagg, R., Smith, G., Garland, M., Gandhi, K. "(2481) proposal to conserve the name Amaryllis atamasco (Zephyranthes atamasco) with that spelling (Amaryllidaceae)". Taxon (2016).
Gandhi, K. "Dan Henry Nicolson (1933-2016): A personal remembrance". Taxon (2016).
Gandhi, K. N., Young, S. M. & Somers, P. 2003. "A Reassessment of the Taxonomy of Liatris borealis Nutt. ex J. McNab and Lacinaria scariosa var. novae-angliae Lunell (Asteraceae)". Taxon 52(2): 313-318.
Hatch, S. L., Gandhi, K. N. & Brown, L. E. 1990. "Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Texas". Texas Agricultural Communication, Misc. Pub. 1655. 157 pages.
C. J. Saldanha & Nicolson, D. H. (eds.). 1976. "Flora of Hassan District,
Karnataka, India". With contributions by ... K. N. Gandhi ... Published for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., by Amerind Publishing Co., Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (India). 915 pages.
Gandhi, K. N., Wiersema, J. H. & Soreng, R. J. 2001. "Proposal to conserve the name Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Griffiths against B. gracilis Vasey (Poaceae)". Taxon 50: 573-575.
Gandhi, K. N. 1999. "Nomenclatural novelties for the Western Hemisphere Plants-II". Harvard Pap. Bot. 4(1): 295-299.
Gandhi, K. N. & Fryxell, P. A. 1990. "Nomenclatural note on Eupatorium fistulosum (Asteraceae)". Sida 14: 129-131.
Gandhi, K. N & Kartesz, J. T. 1993. "Five miscellaneous proposals to amend the Code". Taxon 42: 180-182.