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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
  • Acanthophoenix (6)
  • Acrocomia (1)
  • Adonidia (5)
  • Areca (4)
  • Beccariophoenix (6)
  • Bismarckia (95)
  • Borassus (187)
  • Caryota (2)
  • Chamaedorea (2)
  • Chamaerops (102)
  • Cocos (267)
  • Cyrtostachys (1)
  • Deckenia (4)
  • Dictyosperma (12)
  • Dypsis (423)
  • Elaeis (72)
  • Eremospatha (3)
  • Hyophorbe (13)
  • Hyphaene (530)
  • Jubaea (1)
  • Laccosperma (3)
  • Latania (12)
  • Lemurophoenix (1)
  • Licuala (2)
  • Livistona (10)
  • Lodoicea (33)
  • Marojejya (18)
  • Masoala (4)
  • Orania (11)
  • Phoenicophorium (5)
  • Phoenix (683)
  • Pritchardia (2)
  • Ptychosperma (2)
  • Raphia (42)
  • Ravenea (57)
  • Roscheria (1)
  • Roystonea (4)
  • Satranala (11)
  • Syagrus (3)
  • Tahina (23)
  • Verschaffeltia (2)
  • Voanioala (3)
  • Washingtonia (11)
  • Wodyetia (1)