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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
  • Achyrospermum (15)
  • Acrotome (45)
  • Aeollanthus (81)
  • Ajuga (99)
  • Alvesia (7)
  • Ballota (1)
  • Basilicum (6)
  • Bystropogon (142)
  • Cantinoa (11)
  • Cedronella (176)
  • Clerodendrum (136)
  • Clinopodium (145)
  • Coleus (225)
  • Endostemon (20)
  • Equilabium (28)
  • Gmelina (26)
  • Haumaniastrum (5)
  • Holmskioldia (12)
  • Hoslundia (67)
  • Isodon (3)
  • Kalaharia (40)
  • Karomia (118)
  • Lamium (46)
  • Lavandula (493)
  • Leonotis (262)
  • Leonurus (2)
  • Leucas (83)
  • Lycopus (1)
  • Marrubium (117)
  • Melissa (5)
  • Mentha (87)
  • Mesosphaerum (102)
  • Micromeria (226)
  • Moluccella (1)
  • Nepeta (57)
  • Ocimum (143)
  • Origanum (39)
  • Orthosiphon (28)
  • Otostegia (1)
  • Phlomis (18)
  • Platostoma (15)
  • Plectranthus (54)
  • Prasium (22)
  • Premna (20)
  • Prunella (135)
  • Pseudodictamnus (10)
  • Rotheca (77)
  • Rydingia (7)
  • Salvia (463)
  • Scutellaria (14)
  • Sideritis (226)
  • Stachys (260)
  • Syncolostemon (87)
  • Tectona (101)
  • Tetradenia (39)
  • Teucrium (235)
  • Thorncroftia (5)
  • Thymus (91)
  • Tinnea (26)
  • Vitex (190)
  • Volkameria (20)