Some collections of the Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium, University of Calabar

Patrick Akwaji; Omokafe Ugbogu; Emmanuel Chukwuma

doi:10.15468/nmecpq

Some collections of the Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium, University of Calabar

Citation

Akwaji P, Ugbogu O, Chukwuma E (2019). Some collections of the Department of Plant and Ecological Studies Herbarium, University of Calabar. Version 1.1. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/nmecpq accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

The department of Plant and Ecological Studies had existed as a unit from establishment of the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nigeria, Calabar campus in 1973/1974 academic session. The Plant and Ecological Studies programme continued as a unit within the Department of Biological Sciences with the establishment of the University of Calabaron October 1, 1975. In April 2001, the Department of Biological Sciences was split into four autonomous departments, Plant and Ecological Studies, Genetics and Biotechnology, Microbiology and Zoology/Environmental Biology. The Plant and Ecological Studies programme is designed to achieve excellence in research and training in all activities relating to the use of plants with special focus on the following fields: Phytopathology (Mycology/Plant Virology option), Plant Physiology/Plant Biochemistry, Plant Ecology, Plant Taxonomy, and Ethnobotany. The department currently has an herbarium, which was established during the 1979/1980 Academic session to aid plant identification for students and researchers within the university community and its environs. It has since then, been in existence with a reasonable collection of plant species and number of supporting staff headed by a curator. The present dataset holds 101 records of preserved specimens collected between 1980 and 2013. It has 100 species in 13 families and 82 genera.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

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Sampling

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Quality Control

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Method steps

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Taxonomic Coverages

Specimens were identified to either generic, species or variety rank.

Cyrtosperma senegalense (Schott) Engl.
rank: species
Schefflera arboricola (Hayata) Kanehira, 1936
rank: species
Vernonia Schreb.
rank: genus
Holarrhena floribunda var. tomentella H.Huber
rank: variety

Geographic Coverages

The herbarium specimens were collected mostly from southern Nigeria.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Patrick Akwaji
originator
position: Lecturer II
University of Calabar
Dept. of Plant and Ecological Studies
Calabar
Cross River State
NG
Telephone: +234 8034683096
email: akwajiisnever@gmail.com

Omokafe Ugbogu
originator
position: Research Professor/Curator Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
Telephone: +234 8032236876
email: omokafeugbogu@yahoo.com

Emmanuel Chukwuma
originator
position: Research Fellow
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
Telephone: +234 8060114367
email: chukwuma.ec@frin.gov.ng
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-283X

Emmanuel Chukwuma
metadata author
position: Research Fellow
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
Telephone: +234 8060114367
email: chukwuma.ec@frin.gov.ng
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-283X

Patrick Akwaji
metadata author
position: Lecturer II
University of Calabar
Dept. of Plant and Ecological Studies
Calabar
Cross River State
NG
Telephone: +234 8034683096
email: akwajiisnever@gmail.com

Patrick Akwaji
author
position: Lecturer II
University of Calabar
Dept. of Plant and Ecological Studies
Calabar
Cross River State
NG
Telephone: +234 8034683096
email: akwajiisnever@gmail.com

Omokafe Ugbogu
principal investigator
position: Research Professor/Curator Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
Telephone: +234 8032236876
email: omokafeugbogu@yahoo.com

Emmanuel Chukwuma
publisher
position: Research Fellow
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
Telephone: +234 8060114367
email: chukwuma.ec@frin.gov.ng
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-283X

Marie-Elise Lecoq
distributor
position: IT Engineer
GBIF France
FR
Telephone: +33140798065
email: melecoq@gbif.fr

Emmanuel Chukwuma
administrative point of contact
position: Research Fellow
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
Telephone: +234 8060114367
email: chukwuma.ec@frin.gov.ng
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-283X

Omokafe Ugbogu
administrative point of contact
position: Research Professor/Curator Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI)
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Jericho Hill
Ibadan
Oyo State
NG
Telephone: +234 8032236876
email: omokafeugbogu@yahoo.com