Description
This is a checklist of medicinal plants used by indigenous people in Benue state, Nigeria for the treatment of snake bites.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 17 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Onuminya T, Ogundipe O, Nodza G (2022): Checklist of medicinal plants used in treating snakebites in Benue State, Nigeria. v1.0. University of Lagos. Dataset/Checklist. https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=snakebites&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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: 7ac0442d-93f8-4bee-a437-5c6e9ed62530. University of Lagos publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Nigeria.
Keywords
Checklist; Snakebites; Ethnobotany; Medicinal Plants; Benue; Nigeria; Derivedfromoccurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact ●
- Principal Investigator
- Point Of Contact
- Curator ●
- Originator
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
The study was done in Benue state Nigeria
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
|---|
Taxonomic Coverage
Collection includes genus Annona, Anthocleista, Buchholzia, Rourea, Ceiba, Cnestis, Detarium, Entada, Erythrina, Gossypium, Lophira, Morinda, Nicotiana, Olax, Piliostigma, Tinospora, Philenoptera
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
|---|
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 2017-12-01 |
|---|
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 carried out in Lagos, Nigeria |
The personnel involved in the project:
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=snakebites |
|---|