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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 

Homepage: http://www.inaturalist.org
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
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
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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  • Acanthospermum (76)
  • Achillea (16)
  • Achyrophorus (21)
  • Acmella (15)
  • Adenostemma (6)
  • Aedesia (1)
  • Afroaster (7)
  • Ageratina (631)
  • Ageratum (313)
  • Ajania (1)
  • Allagopappus (98)
  • Ambrosia (8)
  • Anacyclus (73)
  • Andryala (586)
  • Anisopappus (20)
  • Anthemis (27)
  • Antiphiona (1)
  • Anvillea (26)
  • Aphelexis (4)
  • Apodocephala (1)
  • Arctium (1)
  • Arctotheca (11)
  • Arctotis (6)
  • Argyranthemum (669)
  • Arrowsmithia (1)
  • Artemisia (296)
  • Artemisiopsis (1)
  • Aspilia (23)
  • Asteriscus (239)
  • Athrixia (10)
  • Atractylis (91)
  • Baccharoides (17)
  • Bechium (1)
  • Bellis (48)
  • Berkheya (79)
  • Bethencourtia (37)
  • Bidens (442)
  • Blainvillea (4)
  • Blumea (5)
  • Bombycilaena (15)
  • Bothriocline (5)
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  • Brachylaena (12)
  • Brocchia (16)
  • Calendula (345)
  • Callilepis (14)
  • Calomeria (6)
  • Calostephane (21)
  • Calyptocarpus (6)
  • Campuloclinium (8)
  • Caputia (1)
  • Carduncellus (45)
  • Carduus (251)
  • Carlina (594)
  • Carthamus (43)
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  • Felicia (22)
  • Filago (34)
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  • Helichrysum (838)
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  • Hertia (15)
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  • Hilliardiella (27)
  • Hirpicium (1)
  • Hubertia (94)
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  • Hyoseris (35)
  • Hypericophyllum (3)
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  • Jurinea (3)
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  • Klasea (16)
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  • Lactuca (108)
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  • Lapsana (20)
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  • Launaea (611)
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  • Ptilostemon (10)
  • Pulicaria (81)
  • Reichardia (244)
  • Rhagadiolus (1)
  • Rhanterium (4)
  • Rhodanthemum (11)
  • Roessleria (55)
  • Roldana (21)
  • Santolina (23)
  • Schistostephium (7)
  • Schizogyne (291)
  • Schkuhria (20)
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  • Scorzonera (4)
  • Senecio (344)
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  • Solanecio (20)
  • Soliva (1)
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  • Sphaeranthus (14)
  • Sphagneticola (57)
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  • Stomatanthes (6)
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  • Tolpis (358)
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  • Tragopogon (49)
  • Tridax (273)
  • Tussilago (5)
  • Urospermum (120)
  • Ursinia (5)
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  • Vernonanthura (3)
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  • Xanthium (100)
  • Xerochrysum (3)
  • Youngia (9)
  • Zinnia (64)