Capture of Primary Biodiversity Data for West African Plants

Omokafe Ugbogu1, Oluwaseun Osiyemi1, Emmanuel Chukwuma1, Kehinde Adeniji1, Akinniyi Odewo1, Tolulope Okanlawon1, Temitope Soyewo1, Temitope Oyebola1, Seyifunmi Aina2

1 Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Jericho Hill, Dugbe, Ibadan, Nigeria; 2 Jericho Hill, Dugbe, Ibadan, Nigeria

Corresponding author(s): Omokafe Ugbogu (omokafeugbogu@yahoo.com)Oluwaseun Osiyemi (osinyemi2004@yahoo.com)Emmanuel Chukwuma (chukwumaemma@gmail.com)Kehinde Adeniji (obalomo2016@gmail.com)Akinniyi Odewo (akinodewo@gmail.com)Tolulope Okanlawon (tolulopeokan@gmail.com)Temitope Soyewo (temitopesoyewo@gmail.com)Temitope Oyebola (temitoperosanwo@yahoo.com)Seyifunmi Aina (seyifunmiaina@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Ugbogu O, Osiyemi O, Chukwuma E, Adeniji K, Odewo A, Okanlawon T, Soyewo T, Oyebola T, Aina S (2018): Capture of Primary Biodiversity Data for West African Plants. v1.6. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=fhi_frin-collection&v=1.6

Abstract

Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI) is a repository of about 101000 specimens of vascular plants and cryptograms mainly from all parts of Nigeria and some other parts of the world. Forest Herbarium Ibadan  is located in Taxonomy Section of the Department of Forest Conservation and Protection, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan. The sources of FHI materials are from Taxonomic activities such as collections during routine field exploration, floristic projects and inventories. Other sources include specimens exchange from other herbaria (Nationally and Internationally), voucher specimens from scientists and research students and donations from private collectors. The objectives of FHI are to render Taxonomic services (Identification, Classification and Nomenclature), conserve and monitor the distribution and status of the flora of Nigeria through plant collection and botanical exploration of her regions and to encourage proper documentation of the flora. Today, FHI plays the role of a National herbarium in Nigeria. 
The present dataset hold about 17105 records of angiosperms cutting across  34 families in 415 genera and 1432 species with 18750 images linked to the data. These specimens were collected between 1842-2017.

Keywords: Occurrence, Plants, Nigeria, Forest Herbarium Ibadan, Occurrence, Occurrence, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Capture of Primary Biodiversity Data for West African Plants
Personnel: Omokafe Ugbogu, Alex Asase, Pierre Raoufou, Moses Sainge, Jean Ganglo, Emmanuel Chukwuma
Funding: JRS  Biodiversity Foundation
Study area descriptions/descriptor: n/a
Design description: The project was co-ordinated by  University of Ghana-Ghana Herbarium in partnership with four West Africa Countries viz: Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI) of the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria; University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin; University of Lome, Togo; and Tropical Plant Exploration Group (TROPEG), Cameroon. Others were three  European/North America – New York Botanical Garden, USA; Missouri Botanical Gardens, St Louis, USA and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden, Netherlands.

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All vascular plants were identified to species or varietas. Examples of taxa are listed below
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Khaya senegalensis A.Juss., Carapa grandiflora Sprague, Combretum platypterum Hutch. & Dalziel

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The resource covers 17105 specimens. Most of the specimens (13143) were collected from Nigeria. Others are donated/exchange specimens from many other African countries- 3669 specimens, 63 from Asia, 12 from North America, 9 from South America and 1 from Europe.
Coordinates: 52°3'7.2''S and 61°36'21.6''N Latitude; 129°22'30''W and 103°21'32.4''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: Not applicable
Collection name: Capture of Primary Biodiversity Data for West African Plants
Collection identifier: Not applicable
Formation period: 1842-2017
Specimen preservation method: Dried and pressed
Curatorial unit: 17105 with an uncertainty of 0 (Herbarium specimen sheets)

Methods

Method step description: Not applicable
Study extent description: Not applicable
Sampling description: Not applicable
Quality control description: Not applicable

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Capture of Primary Biodiversity Data for West African Plants
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=fhi_frin-collection
Publication date of data: 2019-01-11
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-11-25
Hierarchy level: Dataset