A checklist of Plants growing in Ibeju Lekki Wetlands, Lagos, Nigeria

Olabisi Fowokan Jackson1, Halima Adeniji2, Temitope Onuminya3, Victor Oroleke4

1 Olokun Olosa Oluweri NGO, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria; 2 Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency, Plot 2 Lateef Junaid Dosumu Street, CBD Agidingbi, 23401, Ikeja, Nigeria; 3 University of Lagos, Department of Botany, 23401, Akoka, Nigeria; 4 University of Lagos, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, Faculty of Science, 23401, AKOKA, Nigeria

Corresponding author(s): Olabisi Fowokan JacksonHalima Adeniji (halimadeniji92@gmail.com), Temitope Onuminya (tadeyemi@unilag.edu.ng)

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Resource Citation

Fowokan Jackson O, Adeniji H (2022): A checklist of Plants growing in Ibeju Lekki Wetlands, Lagos, Nigeria. v1.0. University of Lagos. Dataset/Checklist. https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/resource?r=ibejulekkiwetlandplants&v=1.0

Abstract

This is a checklist of plants growing in wetlands around Ibeju Lekki Local Government Area, Lagos, Nigeria.

Keywords: Checklist, wetlands, Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria, Inventorythematic

Project details

Project title: Expanding the visibility of the Lagos Herbarium through Digitization and Mobilization of Plant Specimen Data
Personnel: Temitope Onuminya, Victor Oroleke
Funding: GBIF-BID Grant
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The project was carried out in Lagos, Nigeria

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The collection includes the following genera: Abelmoschus, Acacia, Acanthospermum, Aerva, Aframomum, Allium, Aloe, Amaranthus, Anacardium, Antiaris, Asparagus, Aspilia, Brachiaria, Carica, Chasmanthera, Chromolaena, Cissampelos, Corchorus, Curcuma, Cylicodiscus, Detarium, Dioscorea, Elytraria, Ensete, Entada, Eragrostis, Erythrophleum, Ficus, Floscopa, Garcinia, Ipomoea, Jatropha, Kalanchoe, Khaya, Launaea, Leplaea, Macrosphyra, Mangifera, Markhamia, Milicia, Mucuna, Newbouldia, Ocimum, Peperomia, Persea, Phaseolus, Philenoptera, Phoenix, Physalis, Plukenetia, Pterocarpus, Sarcophrynium, Schwenckia, Secamone, Senna, Sida, Solanum, Struchium, Theobroma, Vachellia, Zapoteca and Zingiber
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida, Liliopsida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The collection represents Lagos Wetland Flora
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive A checklist of Plants growing in Ibeju Lekki Wetlands, Lagos, Nigeria
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=ibejulekkiwetlandplants
Publication date of data: 2022-12-21
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-12-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset