All herbarium specimens of grasses held at TAN herbarium

Marie Linah Rabarivola

doi:10.15468/v6mfx2

All herbarium specimens of grasses held at TAN herbarium

Citation

Rabarivola M L, Razafiniary V, Razanajatovo H, Rapanarivo S H, Ralimanana H, Vorontsova M (2019). All herbarium specimens of grasses held at TAN herbarium. Version 1.8. Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/v6mfx2 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-23.

Description

This dataset contains specimen of Poaceae family held at the Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza. Those are related to specimen collected in Madagascar and the surrounding islands (La Reunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Juan de Nova, Europa Island, Glorioso islands, Mayottes) since 1841 to 2018. The basic data was provided by TAN herbarium. KMCC team have done the georeferencing of the old specimen by using the webs georeferencing tools and the gazetteer of Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) and KMCC. This publication is linked to the BID grasses project (BID-AF2017-0103-SMA) which is funded by GBIF through the European Union funding.

Sampling Description

Quality Control

To ensure that the data to be transferred to GBIF portal has a high quality, the database manager has done weekly a double check of data quality from the database officers. The checked data were cleaned and standardised in a BRAHMS database.

Method steps

Merging of existing records from TAN herbarium in the Poaceae database, georeferencing of oldest specimen by using MBG and KMCC gazetteer and the webs georeferencing tools, updating of the scientific name by Dr Maria Vorontsova (Grass specialist), cleaning data, publishing

Taxonomic Coverages

Poaceae of Madagascar and surrounding islands according to Poaceae specimen collections from TAN Herbarium

Poaceae
common name: Grass, Bozaka rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Madagascar and surrounding islands (La Reunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Juan de Nova, Europa Island, Glorioso islands, Mayottes)

Bibliographic Citations

http://www.geonames.org/ -
http://www.getamap.org -
https://www.google.co.za/maps -
Gazetteer to Malagasy Botanical Collecting Localities - http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/madagascar/gazetteer/
BRAHMS database, Management of Natural History, University of Oxford - https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/

Contacts

Marie Linah Rabarivola
originator
position: Database Manager/Botanist
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: L.Rabarivola@kew.org
homepage: https://teamkmcc.wordpress.com

Velosoa Razafiniary
metadata author
position: Database Officer
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: v.razafinary@kew.org
homepage: https://teamkmcc.wordpress.com

Henintsoa Razanajatovo
metadata author
position: Database Officer
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: h.razanajatovo@kew.org
homepage: https://teamkmcc.wordpress.com

Solo Hery Rapanarivo
metadata author
position: Head of the Flora Department
Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza
B.P. 4096
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261 20 22 311 49
email: srapanarivo@yahoo.fr
homepage: http://www.pbzt.recherche.gov.mg

Hélène Ralimanana
metadata author
position: Team Manager
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
Telephone: +261202242368
email: H.Ralimanana@kew.org
homepage: https://teamkmcc.wordpress.com

Maria Vorontsova
metadata author
position: Research Leader (Grasses) | Comparative Plant & Fungal Biology
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Richmond Surrey
TW9 3AB
GB
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8332 5022
email: m.vorontsova@kew.org
homepage: http://www.kew.org/data/grassbase/index.html

Solo Hery Rapanarivo
content provider
position: Head of the Flora Department
Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza
B.P. 4096
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261 20 22 311 49
email: srapanarivo@yahoo.fr
homepage: http://www.pbzt.recherche.gov.mg

Marie Linah Rabarivola
administrative point of contact
position: Database Manager/Botanist
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre
Lot II J 131 B
Ambodivoanjo-Ivandry
101
Antananarivo
MG
Telephone: +261202242368
email: L.Rabarivola@kew.org
homepage: https://teamkmcc.wordpress.com