A taxonomic, genetic and ecological data resource for the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland

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• Last updated: 16 February 2023
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Summary

The dataset contains a current inventory of vascular plant species and their attributes present in the flora of Britain and Ireland. The species list is based on the most recent key to the flora of Britain and Ireland, with taxon names linked to unique Kew taxon identifiers and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, and includes both native and non-native species. Attribute data stem from a variety of sources to give an overview of the current state of the vascular flora. Attributes include functional traits, distribution and ecologically relevant data (e.g. genome size, chromosome numbers, spatial distribution, growth form, hybridization metrics and native/non-native status). The data include previously unpublished genome size measurements, chromosome counts and CSR life strategy assessments. The database aims to provide an up-to-date starting point for flora-wide analyses. This dataset will be available under the terms of the Open Government Licence https://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/licences/OGL/plain Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9f097d82-7560-4ed2-af13-604a9110cf6d

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-02-09T11:21:48
• Access contraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Henniges, M.C., Powell, R.F., Mian, S., Stace, C.A., Walker, K.J., Gornall, R.J., Christenhusz, M.J.M., Brown, M.R., Twyford, A.D., Hollingsworth, P.M., Jones, L., De Vere, N., Antonelli, A., Leitch, A.R., Leitch, I.J. (2021). A taxonomic, genetic and ecological data resource for the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9f097d82-7560-4ed2-af13-604a9110cf6d
• Harvest GUID: 9f097d82-7560-4ed2-af13-604a9110cf6d
• Extent: Latitude: 60.861° to 49.807°
• Extent: Longitude: -11.46° to 1.768°
• Dataset reference date: 2021-09-20 (publication)
• Responsible party: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Queen Mary University of London (author); Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (author, pointOfContact); Unaffiliated (author); Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (author); University of Leicester (author); University of Edinburgh (author); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (author); National Botanic Garden of Wales (author); Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen University (author); Queen Mary University of London (author); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian); NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (publisher); Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (owner)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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