Antarctic Plant Database

Helen Peat

doi:10.15468/6dgnjf

Antarctic Plant Database

Citation

Peat H, Whitelaw M (2022). Antarctic Plant Database. UK Polar Data Centre. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6dgnjf accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-11-19.

Description

The Antarctic Plant Database is a database of the plant collections held in the British Antarctic Survey's herbarium (international code AAS). This contains over 50,000 plant specimens from Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents (especially Fuegia and Patagonia). Over 2000 species are represented, comprising predominantly mosses, liverworts and lichens with smaller collections of vascular plants, macro-algae and macro-fungi.

Taxonomic Coverages

Note: fungi are predominantly lichenised with some non-lichenised specimens

Tracheophyta
rank: phylum
Bryophyta
rank: phylum
Marchantiophyta
rank: phylum
Chlorophyta
rank: phylum
Cyanobacteria
rank: phylum
Fungi
rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents (especially Fuegia and Patagonia) and Arctic

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Helen Peat
originator
position: Head of UK Polar Data Centre
UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
GB
email: hjp@bas.ac.uk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-8597

Mari Whitelaw
metadata author
position: Scientific Data Manager
UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
GB
email: martel@bas.ac.uk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7555-1550

Mari Whitelaw
administrative point of contact
position: Scientific Data Manager
UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
GB
email: martel@bas.ac.uk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7555-1550