A Checklist of Plants in the Nigerian Arid Zone

Temitope Onuminya1, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe2, Aramide Igbari1, Kehinde Kemabonta3

1 University of Lagos, Department of Botany University of Lagos, 23401, Akoka, Nigeria; 2 University of Lagos, Department of Botany, University of Lagos, 23401, Akoka, Nigeria; 3 University of Lagos, Department of Zoology, University of Lagos, 23401, Akoka, Nigeria

Corresponding author(s): Temitope Onuminya (tadeyemi@unilag.edu.ng)Oluwatoyin Ogundipe (oogundipe@unilag.edu.ng)Aramide Igbari (aoshingboye@unilag.edu.ng)Kehinde Kemabonta (kkemabonta@unilag.edu.ng)

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Resource Citation

Onuminya T, Ogundipe O, Igbari A, Kemabonta K (2022): A Checklist of Plants in the Nigerian Arid Zone. v1.2. University of Lagos. Dataset/Checklist. http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=checklist_of_aridplants_in_the_lagos_herbarium&v=1.2

Abstract

This is a checklist of plants in Nigeria Arid Zone found in the Lagos University Herbarium, Lagos, Nigeria.

Keywords: Checklist, Arid Plants, Nigeria, CARGS, Inventorythematic

Project details

Project title: Expanding the visibility of the Lagos Herbarium through Digitization and Mobilization of Plant Specimen Data - BID-AF2020-009-INS
Personnel: Temitope Onuminya, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe
Funding: GBIF-BID Grant
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The Project is domiciled at the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
Design description: Data was mobilized from preserved voucher specimens in the LUH.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=checklist_of_aridplants_in_the_lagos_herbarium

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Collections represent the Nigerian Arid plants including members of the Family Acanthaceae, Amaranthaceae, Anacardiaceae, Annonaceae, Apiaceae, Apocynaceae, Araliaceae, Araceae, Arecaceae, Aristolochiaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Bignoniaceae, Cochlospermaceae, Cordiaceae, Boraginaceae, Burseraceae, Cactaceae, Caricaceae, Casuarinaceae, Celastraceae, Cleomaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Commelinaceae, Convolvulaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Cyperaceae, Cupressaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Ebenaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Lamiaceae, Loganiaceae, Loranthaceae, Lyhraceae, Malvaceae, Poaceae, Fabaceae, Combretaceae, Sapindaceae, Maranthaceae, Melastomataceae, Moraceae, Myrtaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Ochnaceae, Orobanchaceae, Oxalidaceae, Papaveraceae, Martyniaceae, Rubiaceae, Pedaliacaeae, Phyllanthaceae, Onagraceae, Portulacaceae, Talinaceae, Rhamnaceae, Sapotaceae, Vitaceae, Verbenaceae, Asphodelaceae, Zingiberaceae and Zygophyllaceae.
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Samples were collected in the Northern part of Nigeria
Coordinates: 9°52'55.2''N and 13°50'16.8''N Latitude; 3°1'55.2''E and 14°39'21.6''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 1, 2010 - November 30, 2012

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive A Checklist of Plants in the Nigerian Arid Zone
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=checklist_of_aridplants_in_the_lagos_herbarium
Publication date of data: 2022-06-15
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-03-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Ogundipe, OT. et al. (2011). DNA Banking and Barcording of Arid Plants in Nigeria. Competitive Agricultural Research Grant Scheme (CARGS) Awards, Nigeria.