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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.)
Extra Statistics
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acrostichum (25)
  • Actiniopteris (39)
  • Adiantum (669)
  • Aleuritopteris (4)
  • Anogramma (46)
  • Antrophyopsis (30)
  • Antrophyum (2)
  • Ceratopteris (9)
  • Cerosora (1)
  • Cheilanthes (67)
  • Coniogramme (2)
  • Cosentinia (62)
  • Doryopteris (11)
  • Haplopteris (6)
  • Myriopteris (2)
  • Oeosporangium (54)
  • Paragymnopteris (59)
  • Pellaea (80)
  • Pityrogramma (21)
  • Pteris (182)
  • Vittaria (4)