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Bolus Herbarium Specimens Collection (1865-2009)

Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on Nov 22, 2017 South African National Biodiversity Institute

Over 30 000 specimens of the plant families Fabaceae, Geraniaceae, Rosaceae, Aizoaceae, Rutaceae and Cyperaceae, predominantly from the CFR and Succulent Karoo areas. Collections from the Bolus Herbarium (University of Cape Town)

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 44,879 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.

Downloads

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Data as a DwC-A file download 44,879 records in English (3 MB) - Update frequency: unknown
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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:

Tinder-Smith T (2015): Bolus Herbarium Specimens Collection (1865-2009). v1.4. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=uct_bolus_herbarium_specimens&v=1.4

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. 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: 753f49f5-6ac2-4e88-8abe-f2be9518542e.  South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence, Aizoaceae, Cyperaceae; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Terry Tinder-Smith
Curator
Bolus Herbarium, University of Cape Town Bolus Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, Rhodes Gift 7707 Cape Town Western Cape ZA (021) 6503724
http://www.bolus.uct.ac.za/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Terry Tinder-Smith
Curator
Bolus Herbarium, University of Cape Town Bolus Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, Rhodes Gift 7707 Cape Town Western Cape ZA (021) 6503724
http://www.bolus.uct.ac.za/

Who filled in the metadata:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Technician
SANBI Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch 7735 Claremont Western Cape ZA 021 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org/

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Terry Tinder-Smith
Curator
Bolus Herbarium, University of Cape Town Bolus Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, Rhodes Gift 7707 Cape Town Western Cape ZA (021) 6503724

Geographic Coverage

South Africa and Namibia

Bounding Coordinates South West [-34.243, 11.806], North East [-17.075, 32.897]

Taxonomic Coverage

Aizoaceae, Rutaceae and Cyperaceae families

Family  Aizoaceae (Mesembs/Vygies, Sedges),  Cyperaceae (Mesembs/Vygies, Sedges),  Rutaceae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1813-03-17 / 2014-12-25

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 753f49f5-6ac2-4e88-8abe-f2be9518542e
http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=uct_bolus_herbarium_specimens