Description
This dataset was extracted on the multilingual dictionary of medicinal plants that lists nearly 1,000 plants identified by their scientific name, scientific synonyms with medicinal indications in about 150 local languages (often linguistic groups) from eight West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.
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 374 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:
Radji R (2017): Medicinal potential of African plants (Togo). v1.7. Université de Lomé. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt-togo.gbif.fr/resource?r=potentiel&v=1.7
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Université de Lomé. 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: b971493e-dfe2-4945-b9e0-f41ebd6060b2. Université de Lomé publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Togo.
Keywords
Occurrence; ethnobotany; West Africa; plants used; Togo; Observation
Contacts
- Point Of Contact
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- Metadata Provider ●
- User
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Geographic Coverage
Its from eight West Africa countries : Bénin,Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinée, Mali, Niger, Sénégal and Togo.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [2.109, -16.523], North East [23.403, 19.248] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This incomplete dataset is conceived as a reading guide complementary to the ethnobotanical studies of which it present a non-exhaustive overview in the bibliographical references, in order to make the consultation more accessible, even to the general public. It is intended above all to be a synthesis tool to become a tool of dialogue between the various actors of health.
| Kingdom | Plantae (Plantes médicinales) |
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Project Data
This dataset allows access to information by different entries that refer to scientific names and African names. The language and country are indicated.
| Title | Medicinal potential of African plants (Togo) |
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| Identifier | BID-AF2015-0004-NAC |
| Funding | This dataset is publishing thanks to BID program funded by European Union and GBIF. |
| Design Description | It is intended above all to be a synthesis tool to become a tool of dialogue between the various actors of health. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Metadata Provider
- Principal Investigator
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
This dataset comes from the collection of data in the literature (flora of the countries concerned) and in the botanical databases available for free access on the Internet
| Study Extent | The data collection covers all of the following countries: Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. |
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| Quality Control | Spelling of scientific names is consistent with the names accepted and available on ipni.org; theplantlist.org et http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/ recherche.php?langue=en |
Method step description:
- This dataset is an extract from a book that is an open door to the comparison between flora and traditional herbal medicine from other regions in order to discover the convergences and divergences in the use of the same plant by different populations. In addition to intellectual enrichment, this can be a way of choosing the species to be cultivated for utilitarian purposes.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | b971493e-dfe2-4945-b9e0-f41ebd6060b2 |
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| http://ipt-togo.gbif.fr/resource?r=potentiel |