West African Plants DatabaseMarcoSchmidtBiodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), EU project UNDESERT
A photo database of West African Plants with a multientry determination key based on 18 simple characters. The photodatabase is very useful for determination of plants in West Africa, is frequently used (c. 40000 visits/year) and also provides a base for the production of field guides. It currently comprises c. 1150 spp. and 7000 photos. Some of these are georeferenced. character data digital photographs identification west africaplantssun biotaCopyright is with the photographers.West Africa from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, from Senegal in the West to Cameroon and Niger in the East-26.7584224.00266127.702801-9.29992520002012MarcoSchmidtBiodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), EU project UNDESERT
marco.schmidt@senckenberg.de
Digital photographyData type: digital photographs, nomenclatural and synonymy data, morphological character data- most photos from 2000-present, few scanned slides from the 1970s