Checklist of the flowering plants of the island of Rodrigues, Indian Ocean

Checklist
Latest version published by The Mauritius Herbarium on Jan 28, 2019 The Mauritius Herbarium
Publication date:
28 January 2019
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The Mauritius Herbarium
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Description

This dataset is the checklist of the native flowering species of the island of Rodrigues, Indian Ocean. This checklist is prepared by The Mauritius Herbarium, using information from the ‘Flore des Mascareignes’and newer published literature. It lists the valid name of recognised native flowering species following APG IV (2016). It includes possible native species - those species that include Mauritius in their range of distribution and are known not to have been introduced. Next versions are going to include vernacular names, known synonyms used in the Mascarenes and origin (endemic, native, probably native), and source (publication citation). This databasing effort has been funded by BID Africa Call 2017, grant BID-AF2017-SMA_0316 (https://www.gbif.org/project/aRCxBBF1BYU2C0us62ea4/getting-the-plants-to-all-dissemination-of-information-from-the-collection-of-the-mauritius-herbarium.) This first version of this checklist is a step towards a comprehensive updated and curated list of the native flowering plants species of the island of Rodrigues. The most recent flora of Rodrigues is being published under the collaboration of Mauritius, France and the UK, under series ‘Flore des Mascareignes”. The first volume of the series was published in 1976, with three volumes in preparation (Poaceae and Cyperaceae that are expected soon, and Orchidaceae). It is expected that an update and curated list will support the scientific community, the Mauritius Government (Rodrigues is part of the Republic of Mauritius) and also the general public. Rodrigues is one of the most ecologically devasted islands in the world,and has one of the most threatened flora in the world, therefore good quality information is essential to decision makers and conservationist.

Data Records

The data in this checklist 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 160 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:

Baider C (2018): Checklist of the flowering plants of the island of Rodrigues, Indian Ocean. v1.1. The Mauritius Herbarium. Dataset/Checklist. https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=rodrigues_checklist&v=1.1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Mauritius Herbarium. 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: 31770fdd-e4c5-4971-a2a8-31eadf292c8e.  The Mauritius Herbarium publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Checklist; Angiosperms; Magnoliophyta; Basal angiosperms; Core angiosperms; Rodrigues

Contacts

Claudia Baider
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  • Author ●
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The Mauritius Herbarium
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Geographic Coverage

Island of Rodrigues

Bounding Coordinates South West [-19.783, 63.301], North East [-19.658, 63.507]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1753-01-01 / 2018-01-01

Project Data

This dataset is the checklist of the native flowering species of the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean.

Title Checklist of the flowering plants of the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean
Identifier BID-AF2017-0316-SMA
Funding BID Africa Call 2017, grant BID-AF2017-0316-SMA
Study Area Description Island of Rodrigues, Republic of Mauritius, Indian Ocean

The personnel involved in the project:

Claudia Baider

Sampling Methods

Information for include a species as native is sampled manually from the Flore des Mascareignes (Bosser et al 1976-onwards) and newer publications. Other sources as previous floras of Rodrigues(Balfour 1877), monographs and other scientific literature are also used. The database is constructed in BRAHMS v7.

Study Extent Recorded native flowering plants of the island of Rodrigues
Quality Control Taxon name and authority derived from the Flore des Mascareignes (Bosser et al 1976-onwards) were validated against Tropicos (http://www.tropicos.org), IPNI (http://www.ipni.org), GBIF (http://www.gbif.org/), WCSP (http://wcsp.science.kew.org/) or recent scientific publications.

Method step description:

  1. After selecting a native species using literature cited above, its name and authority is stored in BRAHMS. Taxon name and authority are than validated using multiple online resources as specified above.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Balfour IB (1877) Aspects of the phænogamic vegetation of Rodrigues, with descriptions of new plants from the island. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 16 (89): 7-25. Bosser J, Cadet T, Guého J and Marais W (1976-onwards) Flore des Mascareignes: La Réunion, Maurice, Rodrigues. 26 vols. Mauritius, Francce, MSIRI/Kew/ORSTOM-IRD.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 31770fdd-e4c5-4971-a2a8-31eadf292c8e
https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=rodrigues_checklist