Vernacular names of the Flore d'Afrique Centrale
Citation
Botanic Garden Meise (2018). Vernacular names of the Flore d’Afrique Centrale. Version 1.7. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/hwrwlp accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-10-16.Description
Vernacular names published in the Flore d’Afrique Centrale linked to their respective scientific names.Sampling Description
Quality Control
Errors produced by the digitization have been corrected, with the intention that the digitized data are identical to the original paper version. The only things that have been changed are obvious spelling mistakes in the original and the authorities of scientific names have been standardized against Brummitt and Powell’s Authors of Plant Names (1992).Method steps
- Optical Character Recognition of the paper volumes. Semi-automated XML markup of the text. Manual checking of the markup and important fields such as the Latin names.
Taxonomic Coverages
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Tracheophytacommon name: Vascular plants rank: unranked
Geographic Coverages
Central Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Meise Botanic Gardenoriginator
Meise Botanic Garden
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
BE
homepage: http://www.plantentuinmeise.be
Mathias Dillen
metadata author
Meise Botanic Garden
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
BE
email: mathias.dillen@plantentuinmeise.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3973-1252
Mathias Dillen
user
email: mathias.dillen@plantentuinmeise.be
Quentin Groom
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
Botanic Garden Meise
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
BE
email: quentin.groom@plantentuinmeise.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0596-5376