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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
  • Acalypha (31)
  • Alchornea (19)
  • Aleurites (1)
  • Ancylobothrys (1)
  • Argomuellera (2)
  • Chamaesyce (6)
  • Claoxylon (1)
  • Clutia (13)
  • Croton (26)
  • Crotonogyne (1)
  • Dalechampia (1)
  • Dichostemma (1)
  • Erythrococca (21)
  • Euphorbia (29)
  • Excoecaria (2)
  • Flueggea (1)
  • Homalanthus (1)
  • Hymenocardia (6)
  • Jatropha (3)
  • Lobanilia (1)
  • Macaranga (17)
  • Mallotus (8)
  • Manihot (3)
  • Maprounea (1)
  • Martretia (1)
  • Mildbraedia (3)
  • Monadenium (1)
  • Neoboutonia (4)
  • Oldfieldia (1)
  • Paranecepsia (1)
  • Pycnocoma (1)
  • Ricinodendron (2)
  • Ricinus (7)
  • Sapium (7)
  • Shirakia (8)
  • Spondianthus (2)
  • Suregada (11)
  • Synadenium (2)
  • Tetrorchidium (2)
  • Thecacoris (3)
  • Tragia (5)