e-Flora of South Africa

Marianne Le Roux1, Fhatani Ranwashe2, Marianne le Roux3

1 South African National Biodiversity Institute, P/Bag x 101, 0184, Silverton, South Africa; 2 South African National Biodiversity Institute, ; 3 South African National Biodiversity Institute, 2 Cussonia Avenue, 0184, Pretoria, South Africa

Corresponding author(s): Marianne Le Roux (m.leroux@sanbi.org.za), Fhatani Ranwashe (f.ranwashe@sanbi.org.za)

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Resource Citation

e-Flora of South Africa. v1.21. 2018. South African National Biodiversity Institute. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=flora_descriptions&amp;v=1.21

Abstract

The e-Flora of South Africa project was initiated in 2013 by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in support of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC, 2011-2020), Target 1 (to create a global Flora, consisting of ca. 350 000 species). South Africa's flora consists of ca. 21 000 species of which more than half are endemic. South Africa will contribute a national Flora towards Target 1 of the GSPC. South Africa's contribution is ca. 6% of the World Flora of which ca. 3% are endemics and therefore unique.

South Africa’s electronic Flora is comprised of previously published descriptions. Permission to re-use extracts from published literature was obtained from the relevant copyright holders.

Keywords: aggregator portal, big data, BODATSA, BRAHMS, data mining, e-Flora of South Africa, World Flora Online, Aggregator portal, big data, BODATSA, BRAHMS, data mining, e-Flora of South Africa, inventory regional, World Flora Online

Project details

Project title: e-Flora of South Africa
Personnel: Marianne Le Roux
Funding: The project is funded through the South African National Biodiversity Institute.

Additional funding to host an e-Flora workshop in collaboration with the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew was obtained through the National Research Foundation (grant reference number: UID92629) and the Royal Society (grant reference number: SA140038).
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The e-Flora of South Africa contains information for all South African vascular plants.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=flora_descriptions

Taxonomic coverage

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Data is provided for South Africa.
Coordinates: 35°2'31.2''S and 22°0'39.6''S Latitude; 16°17'20.4''E and 33°22'8.4''E Longitude 

Curatorial unit: 0 with an uncertainty of 0 ()

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive e-Flora of South Africa
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/archive.do?r=flora_descriptions
Publication date of data: 2019-03-19
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-10-05
Hierarchy level: Dataset