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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
  • Afrocanthium (13)
  • Agathisanthemum (12)
  • Aidia (12)
  • Amphiasma (8)
  • Anthospermum (22)
  • Antirhea (7)
  • Aoranthe (1)
  • Argostemma (1)
  • Asperula (1)
  • Astiella (1)
  • Atractogyne (2)
  • Aulacocalyx (1)
  • Bertiera (39)
  • Bremeria (37)
  • Breonadia (60)
  • Breonia (13)
  • Buchozia (1)
  • Bullockia (3)
  • Burchellia (14)
  • Callipeltis (1)
  • Canephora (4)
  • Canthium (7)
  • Carphalea (16)
  • Catunaregam (9)
  • Cephalanthus (11)
  • Chamaepentas (3)
  • Chapelieria (13)
  • Chassalia (115)
  • Cinchona (1)
  • Coddia (8)
  • Coffea (163)
  • Conostomium (46)
  • Coprosma (1)
  • Coptosperma (69)
  • Cordylostigma (14)
  • Corynanthe (1)
  • Craterispermum (4)
  • Cremaspora (4)
  • Crossopteryx (35)
  • Crucianella (4)
  • Cynanchica (15)
  • Danais (25)
  • Dirichletia (14)
  • Edrastima (3)
  • Empogona (42)
  • Euclinia (1)
  • Eumachia (6)
  • Exallosperma (5)
  • Fadogia (10)
  • Fadogiella (1)
  • Feretia (12)
  • Fernelia (6)
  • Flagenium (2)
  • Gaertnera (132)
  • Galiniera (4)
  • Galium (208)
  • Gallienia (3)
  • Galopina (1)
  • Gardenia (185)
  • Geophila (22)
  • Gomphocalyx (3)
  • Guettarda (6)
  • Gynochthodes (8)
  • Gyrostipula (1)
  • Hamelia (5)
  • Hedythyrsus (1)
  • Heinsenia (2)
  • Heinsia (16)
  • Helictosperma (1)
  • Hexaphylla (14)
  • Hexasepalum (7)
  • Homollea (7)
  • Hutchinsonia (3)
  • Hymenocoleus (7)
  • Hymenodictyon (38)
  • Hyperacanthus (23)
  • Ixora (104)
  • Jovetia (1)
  • Keetia (8)
  • Kohautia (32)
  • Kraussia (13)
  • Lamprothamnus (1)
  • Landiopsis (1)
  • Lasianthus (5)
  • Lathraeocarpa (1)
  • Lelya (2)
  • Leptactina (24)
  • Macrosphyra (3)
  • Mantalania (5)
  • Massularia (6)
  • Melanoxerus (12)
  • Mitracarpus (26)
  • Mitragyna (28)
  • Mitrasacmopsis (1)
  • Morelia (4)
  • Morinda (75)
  • Mussaenda (88)
  • Nauclea (139)
  • Nematostylis (23)
  • Nesohedyotis (1)
  • Oldenlandia (36)
  • Otiophora (41)
  • Otomeria (4)
  • Oxyanthus (6)
  • Paederia (60)
  • Paracarphalea (163)
  • Paracephaelis (15)
  • Paragenipa (4)
  • Pauridiantha (61)
  • Pavetta (57)
  • Payera (2)
  • Pentanisia (39)
  • Pentas (30)
  • Pentodon (6)
  • Peponidium (36)
  • Phialiphora (17)
  • Phyllis (410)
  • Phyllopentas (19)
  • Phylohydrax (4)
  • Plectroniella (5)
  • Plocama (183)
  • Polysphaeria (28)
  • Pseudomussaenda (1)
  • Psychotria (321)
  • Psydrax (18)
  • Puffia (3)
  • Pygmaeothamnus (2)
  • Pyrostria (37)
  • Ramosmania (1)
  • Razafimandimbisonia (32)
  • Richardia (32)
  • Robbrechtia (2)
  • Rondeletia (1)
  • Rothmannia (22)
  • Rubia (305)
  • Rutidea (3)
  • Rytigynia (10)
  • Sabicea (29)
  • Saldinia (57)
  • Saprosma (1)
  • Schismatoclada (11)
  • Schizenterospermum (30)
  • Schizocolea (2)
  • Schumanniophyton (3)
  • Sericanthe (3)
  • Sherardia (119)
  • Sherbournia (3)
  • Spermacoce (101)
  • Stipularia (4)
  • Tamridaea (1)
  • Tarenna (38)
  • Thamnoldenlandia (1)
  • Theligonum (3)
  • Triainolepis (18)
  • Tricalysia (45)
  • Trichostachys (2)
  • Tulearia (3)
  • Uncaria (6)
  • Valantia (3)
  • Vangueria (74)
  • Vangueriopsis (3)
  • Virectaria (14)
  • Wendlandia (1)