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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
Taxon Distribution
  • Aglaonema (1)
  • Alocasia (12)
  • Ambrosina (54)
  • Amorphophallus (123)
  • Anchomanes (22)
  • Anthurium (6)
  • Anubias (6)
  • Arisaema (10)
  • Arisarum (153)
  • Arophyton (2)
  • Arum (46)
  • Biarum (29)
  • Caladium (42)
  • Callopsis (1)
  • Carlephyton (4)
  • Cercestis (4)
  • Colletogyne (4)
  • Colocasia (129)
  • Culcasia (6)
  • Dieffenbachia (12)
  • Dracunculus (89)
  • Epipremnum (43)
  • Gonatopus (7)
  • Lasimorpha (21)
  • Lemna (18)
  • Monstera (41)
  • Nephthytis (6)
  • Philodendron (2)
  • Pistia (128)
  • Pothos (47)
  • Protarum (2)
  • Remusatia (1)
  • Sauromatum (4)
  • Spirodela (5)
  • Stylochaeton (18)
  • Syngonium (27)
  • Thaumatophyllum (5)
  • Typhonodorum (48)
  • Wolffiella (2)
  • Xanthosoma (4)
  • Zamioculcas (6)
  • Zantedeschia (180)