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

Temitope Onuminya1, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe2, Aramide Igbari1, Victor Oroleke3

1 University of Lagos, Department of Botany, 23401, Akoka, Nigeria; 2 University of Lagos, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, 23401, AKOKA, Nigeria; 3 University of Lagos, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, Faculty of Science, 23401, AKOKA, Nigeria

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

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

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

Keywords: Occurrence, Medicinal Plants, Lagos markets, Herbalism, Observation

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 done in Lagos, Nigeria

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Essentially Tracheophytes were recorded.
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida, Liliopsida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The survey was done in Lagos, Nigeria
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: September 1, 2005 - June 1, 2012

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive A survey of medicinal plants sold in Lagos herbal markets in Nigeria
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt-nigeria.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=lagosherbs
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