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Catalogue of the herbarium specimens collected from Discovery Bay and Runaway Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, 1958-1999.

Dataset homepage

Citation

Douglas D, Creary Ford M (2019). Catalogue of the herbarium specimens collected from Discovery Bay and Runaway Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, 1958-1999.. Version 1.3. Caribbean Coastal Data Centre, Centre for Marine Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/h9ibhh accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-09-27.

Description

This is a catalogue of the terrestrial plants collected by the University of the West Indies from Discovery Bay and Runaway Bay in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica, West Indies, during the period 1958 to 1999. It includes 201 plant species representing 54 families that were collected and identified by D. L. Kelly, A. C. Podzorski, G. Ellison and J. H. Palmer. These herbarium specimens form part of the University of the West Indies and the Institute of Jamaica online virtual herbarium collection (www.jamaicavirtualherbarium.com).

Taxonomic Coverages

Terrestrial plants identified to species
  1. Magnoliopsida
    rank: class
  2. Liliopsida
    rank: class

Geographic Coverages

Discovery Bay and Runaway Bay in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Deana-Lee Douglas
originator
position: Scientific Officer
University of the West Indies – Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory
Discovery Bay
St Ann
JM
Telephone: 1 876 973-2241
email: deanalee.douglas02@uwimona.edu.jm
homepage: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/cms/dbml.htm
userId: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=https://www.linkedin.com/in/deana-lee-douglas-8a9b4978/
Marcia Creary Ford
metadata author
position: Environmental Data Manager
University of the West Indies - Centre for Marine Sciences
Mona Campus
Kingston 7
JM
Telephone: 1 876 9271609
email: marcia.creary@uwimona.edu.jm
homepage: http://www.mona.uwi.edu/cms/ccdc/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4645-1662
Marcia Creary Ford
administrative point of contact
email: marcia.creary@uwimona.edu.jm
Philip Rose
curator
position: Lecturer
UWI-Department of Life Sciences
Mona Campus
Kingston 7
JM
email: philip.rose02@uwimona.edu.jm
homepage: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/lifesciences/index.htm
Deana-Lee Douglas
administrative point of contact
position: Scientific Officer
University of the West Indies – Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory
Discovery Bay
St Ann
JM
Telephone: 1 876 973-2241
email: deanalee.douglas02@uwimona.edu.jm
homepage: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/cms/dbml.htm
userId: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=https://www.linkedin.com/in/deana-lee-douglas-8a9b4978/
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