Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea

George Gosline1, George Gosline2

1 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, TW93AE, Richmond, United Kingdom; 2 

Corresponding author(s): George Gosline (g.gosline@kew.org)

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Abstract

The Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea (CVPRG) is a comprehensive listing of all vascular plant species known to occur naturally within Guinea (flowering plants, conifers, ferns, clubmosses and firmosses). Some non-native species are also included but coverage is not comprehensive.

The Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea is a specimen-based knowledge product, generated automatically from the Guinea Collections Database and the Guinea Names Backbone Database, both developed and maintained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in collaboration with the staff of the National Herbarium of Guinea.

We aimed to ensure that each vascular plant taxon reported in the CVPRG as occurring in Guinea is supported by at least one expert-verified collection-based record, including all taxa recorded in the Flore de la Guinée (Lisowski 2009). Key details are provided for these voucher specimens, as auditable evidence of the presence of the taxon in Guinea.

The Guinea Collections Database and the Guinea Names Backbone Database are each based on records from other databases and input from experts.

The Guinea Collections Database is based on an extract from Kew’s Wet Tropics Africa database which comprises records from environmental surveys for mining projects 2005-2015; records from botanical exploration and Red Listing activity in relation to Tropical Important Plant Areas and specimen records cited by Lisowski (2009) of taxa not represented in other sources. These data were complemented by: data obtained from GBIF for specimens deposited at K, MO and P; data sourced from P and georeferenced via the Guinea BID project; data sourced from BR, MO and WAG informed by the Rainbio database; specimen data provided by individual taxon specialists.

The Guinea Names Backbone Database is based on a 2019 download from the African Plants Database (APD continuously updated) for the Tropical Africa area. This was complemented by Plants of the World Online records for all taxa reported in Lisowski (2009). Records are added for taxa new to science as they are published.

The Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea, generated automatically from the Guinea Collections Database and the Guinea Names Backbone Database, underwent two rounds of expert review by 36 taxon specialists named below. For groups lacking a taxon specialist APD was followed.

We thank the taxon specialists and regional experts whose expert review has been fundamental to the quality of CVPRG. We thank all those who have compiled and shared specimen or names data with us over the years.
Family and Contributing Specialists:
ACANTHACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
AIZOACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
AMARANTHACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
ANCISTROCLADACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore
ANNONACEAE	George Gosline
APIACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
APOCYNACEAE	David Goyder, Carel Jongkind
AQUIFOLIACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore
ARACEAE	Simon Mayo, Charlotte Couch
ARECACEAE	Thomas Couvreur
ASTERACEAE	D.J.Nicholas Hind
BASELLACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore
BEGONIACEAE	Mark Sosef
BIXACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
BROMELIACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
BURSERACEAE	Jean Michel Onana
CALOPHYLLACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
CANNACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
CARDIOPTERIDACEAE	Tim Utteridge
CARICACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore
CARYOPHYLLACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
CELASTRACEAE	George Gosline
CHRYSOBALANACEAE	Iain Prance
COLCHICACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
COMBRETACEAE	Carel Jongkind
COMMELINACEAE	Ehoarn Bidault
CONNARACEAE	Carel Jongkind
CONVOLVULACEAE	Ana Rita Simões
CRASSULACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
CYPERACEAE	Isabel Larridon
DIONCOPHYLLACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore
DIOSCOREACEAE	Paul Wilkin
DIPTEROCARPACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
DROSERACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore
EBENACEAE	George Gosline
ERICACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
ERIOCAULACEAE	Sylvia Phillips
EUPHORBIACEAE	Gill Challen
FABACEAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE	Gwil Lewis
FABACEAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE-MIMOSOID	Gwil Lewis, Xander van der Burgt
FABACEAE-CERCIDOIDEAE	Gwil Lewis
FABACEAE-DETARIOIDEAE	Gwil Lewis, Xander van der Burgt
FABACEAE-DIALIOIDEAE	Gwil Lewis, Xander van der Burgt
FABACEAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE	Gwil Lewis, Brian Schrire
FERNS and Fern allies	Aurelie Grall
GENTIANACEAE	Tim Utteridge
GESNERIACEAE	Iain Darbyshire, David Goyder
GISEKIACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
GOODENIACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore
HERNANDIACEAE	Charlotte Couch
ICACINACEAE	Tim Utteridge
IRIDACEAE	Xander van der Burgt
IRVINGIACEAE	David Harris
IXONANTHACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore
LAMIACEAE	Alan Paton
LAURACEAE	Charlotte Couch
LECYTHIDACEAE	Carel Jongkind
LINDERNIACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
MALVACEAE	Martin Cheek
MARANTACEAE	Alexandra Ley
MELASTOMATACEAE	Doug Stone
MELIACEAE	Martin Cheek
MELIANTHACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
MOLLUGINACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
MORACEAE	Charlotte Couch
MORINGACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore
MUSACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
MYRISTICACEAE	Charlotte Couch
MYRTACEAE	Eve Lucas
OCHNACEAE	Toral Shah
OLACACEAE	George Gosline
OLEACEAE	Carel Jongkind
ORCHIDACEAE	Tariq Stevart, Andre Schuiteman, Charlotte Couch
OROBANCHACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
PANDACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
PHYLLANTHACEAE	Gill Challen
PHYTOLACCACEAE	Tokpa Seny Dore, Iain Darbyshire
PICRODENDRACEAE	Gill Challen
PLUMBAGINACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
POACEAE	Martin Xanthos
PODOSTEMACEAE	Martin Cheek
POLYGALACEAE	Jorge Paiva
POLYGONACEAE	Iain Darbyshire
PONTEDERIACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
PRIMULACEAE	Tim Utteridge
PROTEACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
PUTRANJIVACEAE	Alejandro Quintanar, David Harris
RANUNCULACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
RHAMNACEAE	Daniel Cahen
RUBIACEAE	Martin Cheek, Sally Dawson
RUTACEAE	Martin Cheek
SAPOTACEAE	Saba Rokni
SMILACACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
THEACEAE	Gbamon Konomou
THYMELAEACEAE	Xander
URTICACEAE	Alex Monro
XYRIDACEAE	Mike Lock
ZINGIBERACEAE	Mike Lock, David Harris

Keywords: Checklist Guinea Plants, Inventoryregional

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=cvprepguinea

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Vascular Plants
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Common names: plants

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Republic of Guinea
Coordinates: 7°3'25.2''N and 13°4'8.4''N Latitude; 15°12'18''W and 7°33'32.4''W Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.org/archive.do?r=cvprepguinea
Publication date of data: 2022-07-15
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-06-03
Hierarchy level: Dataset