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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
  • Arenaria (9)
  • Atocion (2)
  • Bufonia (3)
  • Cerastium (10)
  • Corrigiola (2)
  • Dianthus (55)
  • Dicheranthus (15)
  • Drymaria (10)
  • Eudianthe (40)
  • Gymnocarpos (36)
  • Gypsophila (6)
  • Haya (1)
  • Herniaria (7)
  • Illecebrum (3)
  • Minuartia (4)
  • Moehringia (1)
  • Paronychia (59)
  • Petrorhagia (23)
  • Pollichia (9)
  • Polycarpaea (252)
  • Polycarpon (60)
  • Polytepalum (1)
  • Pteranthus (4)
  • Rabelera (1)
  • Rhodalsine (19)
  • Sagina (25)
  • Saponaria (10)
  • Silene (668)
  • Spergula (6)
  • Spergularia (55)
  • Stellaria (35)
  • Telephium (5)