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Collection Profile for:
Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Philecology Herbarium (BRIT)

This dataset contains only specimens collected in the following regions (if they exist in this collection):

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, and Zambia.

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Collection Statistics

  • 6,758 specimen records
  • 1,177 (17%) georeferenced
  • 6,204 (92%) with images (6,212 total images)
  • 6,163 (91%) identified to species
  • 168 families
  • 999 genera
  • 2,464 species
  • 2,786 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 December 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
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Rights Holder: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Adenium (1)
  • Ancylobothrys (2)
  • Asclepias (4)
  • Calotropis (1)
  • Camptocarpus (1)
  • Carissa (8)
  • Carvalhoa (9)
  • Catharanthus (1)
  • Craspidospermum (4)
  • Cynanchum (2)
  • Dictyophleba (2)
  • Diplorhynchus (13)
  • Dregea (1)
  • Funtumia (1)
  • Gomphocarpus (3)
  • Gongronema (2)
  • Holarrhena (9)
  • Hunteria (1)
  • Ischnolepis (1)
  • Kanahia (2)
  • Landolphia (11)
  • Leptadenia (2)
  • Lochnera (1)
  • Mascarenhasia (5)
  • Mondia (1)
  • Motandra (2)
  • Oncinotis (4)
  • Pachypodium (1)
  • Pentarrhinum (2)
  • Pergularia (4)
  • Periploca (5)
  • Pervillaea (1)
  • Petchia (2)
  • Plectaneia (2)
  • Pleiocarpa (2)
  • Rauvolfia (35)
  • Saba (7)
  • Schizoglossum (2)
  • Schizostemma (1)
  • Schizozygia (15)
  • Secamone (8)
  • Solenostemma (1)
  • Stathmostelma (2)
  • Strophanthus (13)
  • Tabernaemontana (17)
  • Tacazzea (3)
  • Telosma (1)
  • Thevetia (1)
  • Voacanga (3)