Togo National Herbarium database

Abstract

This article describes the herbarium database of the University of Lomé. The database provides a good representation of the current knowledge of the flora of Togo. The herbarium of University of Lomé, known also as Herbarium togoense is the national herbarium and is registered in Index Herbariorum with the abbreviation TOGO. It contains 15,000 specimens of vascular plants coming mostly from all Togo's ecofloristic regions. Less than one percent of the specimens are from neighbouring countries such as Ghana, Benin and Burkina Faso. Collecting site details are specified in more that 97% of the sheet labels, but only about 50% contain geographic coordinates. Besides being a research resource, the herbarium constitutes an educational collection. The dataset described in this paper is registered with GBIF and accessible at https://www.gbif.org/dataset/b05dd467-aaf8-4c67-843c-27f049057b78. It was developed with the RIHA software (Réseau Informatique des Herbiers d'Afrique). The RIHA system (Chevillotte and Florence 2006, Radji et al. 2009) allows the capture of label data and associated information such as synonyms, vernacular names, taxonomic hierarchy and references.

Vulnerability of African Rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus, Fabaceae) natural stands to climate change and implications for silviculture in West Africa

“…These occurrences data are from author's field surveys and available complementary datasets. These datasets were gathered from: (i) the Global Biodiversity Information Facility website (GBIF, 2018; https ://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0019891-181108115102211), (ii) the African plant species database "RAINBIO" (Dauby et al, 2016), (iii) the datasets of University of Lom e's herbarium (Radji et al, 2018). All the data comprises of only the punctual localisation (longitude and latitude) of the species in West Africa.…”