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iNaturalist Plant Observation - Research Grade (iNaturalist-Research Grade)

iNaturalist research grade plant observations made within one of the following countries: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia

Records were filtered from the following GBIF data download

GBIF.org (20 September 2023) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.k4gyh4 

Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 September 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
DWC-A Import from GBIF
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 199,133 specimen records
  • 199,133 (100%) georeferenced
  • 189,158 (95%) with images (424,675 total images)
  • 197,613 (99%) identified to species
  • 432 families
  • 3,414 genera
  • 14,047 species
  • 15,558 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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Taxon Distribution
  • Achyranthes (333)
  • Aerva (28)
  • Alternanthera (81)
  • Amaranthus (80)
  • Anabasis (39)
  • Arthraerva (75)
  • Arthrocaulon (35)
  • Atriplex (166)
  • Bassia (35)
  • Beta (22)
  • Blitum (4)
  • Bosea (67)
  • Calicorema (68)
  • Caroxylon (15)
  • Celosia (58)
  • Centemopsis (1)
  • Chenolea (5)
  • Chenopodiastrum (103)
  • Chenopodium (57)
  • Cornulaca (2)
  • Cyathula (21)
  • Cyphocarpa (10)
  • Deeringia (3)
  • Dysphania (33)
  • Exomis (1)
  • Gomphrena (212)
  • Guilleminea (18)
  • Halocnemum (1)
  • Halogeton (23)
  • Haloxylon (13)
  • Henonia (3)
  • Hermbstaedtia (19)
  • Iresine (8)
  • Lagrezia (1)
  • Leucosphaera (32)
  • Maireana (13)
  • Marcelliopsis (5)
  • Nelsia (15)
  • Nitrosalsola (75)
  • Noaea (1)
  • Nothosaerva (1)
  • Nucularia (1)
  • Oreobliton (5)
  • Ouret (49)
  • Paraerva (3)
  • Patellifolia (191)
  • Polycnemum (7)
  • Psilotrichum (10)
  • Pupalia (26)
  • Salicornia (42)
  • Salsola (18)
  • Sericocoma (1)
  • Sericorema (1)
  • Sericostachys (2)
  • Suaeda (150)
  • Traganum (81)