Description
This dataset is a record of the herbarium data held by South African National Parks. The herbarium voucher specimens currently reside at the Kimberley South African National Parks Herbarium, which was established in 1992 with the amalgamation of several informal herbaria scattered across various parks, namely: Vaalbos (since deproclaimed and being replaced by Mokala National Park), Kalahari Gemsbok, Addo Elephant and Mountain Zebra National Parks (NPs). The original collection of over 1750 plant specimens, some of which had been collected in the 1940s, was temporarily based at Dalham House in Kimberley. Several years later, in 2001, the collection was transferred to its current premises in the Scientific Services offices. During the same year the herbarium was registered as an international herbarium and became formally known as the Kimberley South African National Parks Herbarium. Today, plant specimens from all national parks except the Garden Route and Kruger NPs are housed at KSAN in individual herbarium
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 10,695 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.
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:
SANParks Herbarium Data for Kimberly South African National Parks Herbarium (KSAN). Version 1.5. South African National Parks. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanparks/resource?r=ksanherbariumdata&v=1.5
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Parks. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 21cafa1a-46da-4f05-a008-52d4988b5c3d. South African National Parks publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; plant; specimen; herbarium; SANParks; Occurrence; plant; specimen; herbarium; SANParks
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Geographic Coverage
Specimens collected in various SANParks.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Project Data
Various plant specimens were collected for a number of reasons (e.g. taxonomy, inventory, research etc.).
| Title | SANParks Herbarium Data for Kimberly South African National Parks Herbarium (KSAN) |
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| Study Area Description | Various SANParks located in South Africa. |
Sampling Methods
Representative plant specimens collected in the field (including fruit, seeds and flowers were available). Plant specimens go through a serious of other procedures including drying, mounting and labelling, once collected. Once the final mounted specimen is complete, it is deposited in the herbarium as a voucher specimen.
| Study Extent | Various SANParks located in South Africa. |
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| Quality Control | Taxonomic updates are done when required. |
Method step description:
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 21cafa1a-46da-4f05-a008-52d4988b5c3d |
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| https://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanparks/resource?r=ksanherbariumdata |