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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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Taxon Distribution
  • Abildgaardia (1)
  • Actinoschoenus (2)
  • Afroscirpoides (5)
  • Afrotrilepis (1)
  • Bolboschoenus (5)
  • Bulbostylis (20)
  • Carex (77)
  • Cladium (3)
  • Coleochloa (15)
  • Costularia (24)
  • Cyperus (1096)
  • Dracoscirpoides (1)
  • Eleocharis (8)
  • Fimbristylis (16)
  • Fuirena (17)
  • Hypolytrum (3)
  • Isolepis (12)
  • Lepironia (2)
  • Machaerina (31)
  • Mapania (2)
  • Microdracoides (1)
  • Rhynchospora (12)
  • Schoenoplectiella (15)
  • Schoenoplectus (4)
  • Scirpoides (31)
  • Scleria (41)