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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
  • Acalypha (128)
  • Adenochlaena (7)
  • Adenocline (1)
  • Alchornea (40)
  • Aleurites (14)
  • Anthostema (12)
  • Argomuellera (5)
  • Astraea (6)
  • Benoistia (1)
  • Caperonia (3)
  • Cavacoa (1)
  • Cephalocroton (10)
  • Chrozophora (11)
  • Claoxylon (1)
  • Cnidoscolus (2)
  • Codiaeum (58)
  • Croton (384)
  • Crotonogyne (1)
  • Dalechampia (37)
  • Dichostemma (1)
  • Droceloncia (18)
  • Erythrococca (2)
  • Euphorbia (4873)
  • Excoecaria (11)
  • Givotia (26)
  • Grossera (4)
  • Hancea (6)
  • Hevea (5)
  • Homalanthus (10)
  • Hura (23)
  • Jatropha (290)
  • Macaranga (46)
  • Mallotus (13)
  • Manihot (102)
  • Manniophyton (10)
  • Maprounea (1)
  • Mareya (3)
  • Mercurialis (98)
  • Micrococca (1)
  • Mildbraedia (2)
  • Neoboutonia (6)
  • Omphalea (2)
  • Orfilea (1)
  • Plukenetia (4)
  • Pseudagrostistachys (1)
  • Ricinodendron (3)
  • Ricinus (847)
  • Schinziophyton (24)
  • Sclerocroton (93)
  • Shirakiopsis (1)
  • Spirostachys (40)
  • Stillingia (10)
  • Suregada (11)
  • Tetrorchidium (3)
  • Tragia (14)
  • Tragiella (1)
  • Triadica (1)