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Genus Family database

Source: R/data_documentation.R
genusFamily.Rd

To create this database, we combined the genera from The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/-/-/) and the Vascular Plant Families and Genera from Kew (http://data.kew.org/vpfg1992/genlist.html). Families were checked against the APGIII families.

Usage

data("genusFamily")

Format

A data frame with 28107 observations on the following 2 variables:

  • family: Vector of families APGIII corrected

  • genus: Vector of genus

Source

WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ Retrieved 2015-12-17.

The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ Retrieved 2016-08-25.

Examples

data(genusFamily)
str(genusFamily)
#> 'data.frame':	31355 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ family: chr  "Orchidaceae" "Euphorbiaceae" "Compositae" "Thelypteridaceae" ...
#>  $ genus : chr  "Aa" "Aalius" "Aaronsohnia" "Abacopteris" ...