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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
  • Agave (535)
  • Albuca (104)
  • Anthericum (18)
  • Asparagus (481)
  • Barnardia (41)
  • Behnia (8)
  • Bellevalia (6)
  • Chlorophytum (51)
  • Cordyline (60)
  • Dipcadi (104)
  • Dracaena (880)
  • Drimia (401)
  • Drimiopsis (19)
  • Eriospermum (25)
  • Eucomis (33)
  • Furcraea (94)
  • Fusifilum (7)
  • Herreriopsis (14)
  • Hyacinthoides (75)
  • Hyacinthus (1)
  • Lachenalia (2)
  • Ledebouria (93)
  • Massonia (4)
  • Merwilla (12)
  • Muscari (123)
  • Ophiopogon (1)
  • Ornithogalum (89)
  • Prospero (53)
  • Pseudogaltonia (22)
  • Resnova (1)
  • Ruscus (50)
  • Sansevieria (1)
  • Schizocarphus (21)
  • Scilla (199)
  • Semele (265)
  • Yucca (14)