A survey of medicinal plants sold in Lagos herbal markets in Nigeria

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Latest version published by University of Lagos on Dec 21, 2022 University of Lagos
Publication date:
21 December 2022
Published by:
University of Lagos
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

This is a record of the survey of medicinal plants sold in Lagos herbal markets in Nigeria.

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Onuminya T, Ogundipe O, Igbari A (2022): A survey of medicinal plants sold in Lagos herbal markets in Nigeria. v1.0. University of Lagos. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=lagosherbs&v=1.0

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Lagos. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5fefe22c-14e6-429b-b669-8461979459ab.  University of Lagos publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Nigeria.

Keywords

Occurrence; Medicinal Plants; Lagos markets; Herbalism; Observation

Contacts

Temitope Onuminya
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact ●
  • Principal Investigator
  • Associate Professor
University of Lagos
  • Department of Botany
23401 Akoka
Lagos
NG
  • +2347030241452
Oluwatoyin Ogundipe
  • Originator
  • Professor
University of Lagos
  • DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY
23401 AKOKA
LAGOS
NG
  • +2348023201618
Aramide Igbari
  • Originator
  • Lecturer
University of Lagos
  • Department of Botany
23401 Akoka
Lagos
NG
  • +234 812 087 8811
Victor Oroleke
  • Processor
  • Technical assistant
University of Lagos
  • DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, Faculty of Science
23401 AKOKA
LAGOS
NG

Geographic Coverage

The survey was done in Lagos, Nigeria

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Essentially Tracheophytes were recorded.

Phylum Tracheophyta
Class Magnoliopsida, Liliopsida

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2005-09-01 / 2012-06-01

Project Data

Mobilization of Plant Specimen Data in the Lagos Herbarium

Title Expanding the visibility of the Lagos Herbarium through Digitization and Mobilization of Plant Specimen Data
Identifier BID-AF2020-009-INS
Funding GBIF-BID Grant
Study Area Description The project was done in Lagos, Nigeria

The personnel involved in the project:

Temitope Onuminya
  • Principal Investigator
Victor Oroleke
  • Processor

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