For the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="https://edition-humboldt.de/register/pflanzen/index.xql?l=en">plant index</ref>, <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#i">no</hi> separate entries are created in a TEI-XML index file (as with the other indexes). Instead, the scientific plant names in the edited texts are annotated in the texts using the appropriate TEI encoding, normalized if necessary, and then retrieved automatically. The plant index is thus created completely dynamically. Each distinct plant name has a list of references to the texts and is automatically linked to various taxonomic databases (see below, section <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016212/globalnames">Global indexes for scientific names</ref>).