Occurrence

Botanical Database of Southern Africa (BODATSA): Botanical Collections

Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 21 February 2024 South African National Biodiversity Institute
Botanical Database of Southern Africa (BODATSA) is a database that contains the official plant name data records. The data collected covers observational data, species checklists, specimen information, species description, literature, and collector information from three SANBI herbaria and two botanical garden herbaria for analysis of southern African plants. This is to maintain the most current scientifically accurate assessments of southern African plants.
Publication date:
21 February 2024
License:
CC-BY 4.0

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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 1,263,024 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.

Downloads

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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:

South African National Biodiversity Institute [SANBI]. 2022. BODATSA: Botanical Collections. Version 1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=brahms_online

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. 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: d0963cee-1a29-47a2-b9bf-fb0e7690077c.  South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Information Specialist
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
+27 21 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Information Specialist
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
+27 21 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org

Who filled in the metadata:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Information Specialist
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
+27 21 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Fhatani Ranwashe

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers d0963cee-1a29-47a2-b9bf-fb0e7690077c
https://ipt.sanbi.org.za/resource?r=brahms_online