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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
  • Achnatherum (3)
  • Acrachne (1)
  • Acroceras (8)
  • Adenochloa (4)
  • Aegilops (8)
  • Agrostis (3)
  • Aira (3)
  • Alloteropsis (8)
  • Alopecurus (1)
  • Ammochloa (1)
  • Ampelodesmos (39)
  • Andropogon (22)
  • Anthephora (4)
  • Anthoxanthum (26)
  • Aristida (55)
  • Arrhenatherum (12)
  • Arthraxon (1)
  • Arundinella (4)
  • Arundo (368)
  • Avena (38)
  • Axonopus (6)
  • Bambusa (39)
  • Bothriochloa (19)
  • Brachypodium (32)
  • Briza (165)
  • Bromus (74)
  • Calamagrostis (1)
  • Castellia (1)
  • Catapodium (10)
  • Cathariostachys (29)
  • Cenchrus (573)
  • Centropodia (3)
  • Chasechloa (5)
  • Chloris (78)
  • Chrysopogon (22)
  • Cladoraphis (42)
  • Coelachne (3)
  • Coix (24)
  • Cortaderia (40)
  • Craspedorhachis (3)
  • Ctenium (20)
  • Cutandia (1)
  • Cymbopogon (23)
  • Cynodon (85)
  • Cynosurus (42)
  • Cyphochlaena (5)
  • Cyrtococcum (8)
  • Dactylis (67)
  • Dactyloctenium (94)
  • Daknopholis (1)
  • Danthoniopsis (8)
  • Dasypyrum (1)
  • Decaryella (2)
  • Decaryochloa (10)
  • Dendrocalamus (9)
  • Desmazeria (1)
  • Dichanthium (21)
  • Diectomis (3)
  • Digitaria (33)
  • Diheteropogon (1)
  • Dimeria (1)
  • Echinaria (3)
  • Echinochloa (25)
  • Ehrharta (6)
  • Eleusine (125)
  • Elionurus (1)
  • Ellisochloa (1)
  • Elytrophorus (3)
  • Enneapogon (23)
  • Enteropogon (5)
  • Entoplocamia (9)
  • Eragrostis (186)
  • Eremopyrum (2)
  • Euclasta (2)
  • Eulalia (17)
  • Festuca (18)
  • Fingerhuthia (5)
  • Gastridium (1)
  • Guaduella (1)
  • Harpachne (2)
  • Harpochloa (3)
  • Helictochloa (3)
  • Helictotrichon (1)
  • Hemarthria (6)
  • Heteropogon (87)
  • Hickelia (14)
  • Holcus (41)
  • Hordeum (51)
  • Humbertochloa (4)
  • Hyparrhenia (99)
  • Hyperthelia (10)
  • Imperata (31)
  • Isachne (34)
  • Ischaemum (5)
  • Lachnagrostis (11)
  • Lagurus (82)
  • Lamarckia (110)
  • Lasiorhachis (5)
  • Lecomtella (5)
  • Leersia (6)
  • Leptaspis (3)
  • Leptocarydion (6)
  • Leptochloa (1)
  • Leptothrium (1)
  • Lepturus (4)
  • Lolium (15)
  • Loudetia (41)
  • Lygeum (7)
  • Macrochloa (6)
  • Maltebrunia (6)
  • Megastachya (19)
  • Megathyrsus (31)
  • Melica (9)
  • Melinis (126)
  • Merxmuellera (2)
  • Microchloa (2)
  • Microlaena (23)
  • Microstegium (1)
  • Miscanthidium (4)
  • Molineriella (1)
  • Monocymbium (4)
  • Nastus (40)
  • Neostapfiella (10)
  • Neyraudia (14)
  • Odyssea (4)
  • Oldeania (22)
  • Oloptum (13)
  • Olyra (18)
  • Oplismenus (46)
  • Oropetium (2)
  • Oryza (12)
  • Oryzopsis (1)
  • Oxytenanthera (7)
  • Panicum (66)
  • Parapholis (1)
  • Paspalum (214)
  • Pentameris (2)
  • Perotis (29)
  • Phalaris (18)
  • Phragmites (262)
  • Phyllostachys (1)
  • Poa (46)
  • Poecilostachys (1)
  • Pogonarthria (13)
  • Pogonatherum (6)
  • Polypogon (36)
  • Pseudechinolaena (2)
  • Pseudosasa (2)
  • Rhytachne (2)
  • Rostraria (7)
  • Rottboellia (10)
  • Saccharum (17)
  • Sacciolepis (22)
  • Sartidia (4)
  • Schismus (2)
  • Schizachyrium (2)
  • Schmidtia (13)
  • Schoenefeldia (2)
  • Sclerodactylon (11)
  • Setaria (143)
  • Sirochloa (5)
  • Sokinochloa (9)
  • Sorghum (24)
  • Sporobolus (71)
  • Steinchisma (1)
  • Stenotaphrum (29)
  • Stiburus (5)
  • Stipagrostis (45)
  • Stipellula (9)
  • Styppeiochloa (1)
  • Taeniatherum (2)
  • Tenaxia (2)
  • Tetrapogon (1)
  • Themeda (44)
  • Thuarea (6)
  • Thysanolaena (14)
  • Trachypogon (13)
  • Tragus (24)
  • Tricholaena (26)
  • Trichoneura (1)
  • Trichopteryx (5)
  • Tripsacum (1)
  • Triraphis (2)
  • Trisetopsis (2)
  • Trisetum (1)
  • Tristachya (4)
  • Triticum (1)
  • Urelytrum (2)
  • Urochloa (109)
  • Valiha (19)
  • Viguierella (4)
  • Vossia (1)
  • Vulpiella (5)
  • Yvesia (2)
  • Zaqiqah (1)
  • Zea (19)
  • Zoysia (10)