A dataset containing the most relevant taxonomic
information of plant names stored in the World Flora Online,
taxonomic backbone including bryophytes and vascular plants (i.e.
licophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms) and all taxonomic
levels (i.e. infra-species, species, genus, family and so
on).
The original backbone was slightly edited aiming to
standardize the notation across backbones provided in
plantRdata. Many columns in the original source that were not
essential for the process of taxon name checking were removed and
most of them were renamed. Duplicated scientific names (i.e.
taxon name + author) whose taxon status were not accepted were
also removed to avoid possible problems in the taxon name
matching process.
data(wfoNames)An object of class data.frame with 13 columns and
over 1.5 million rows.
Borsch, T., Berendsohn, W., Dalcin, E., et al. (2020). World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants. Taxon 69: 1311-1341. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373
Last update of the downloaded backbone (month/day/year):
10/1/2024.