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Flora of Somalia, Mats Thulin (Editor) (FoSO)

The Flora of Somalia is a 4 volume work published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The first volume was published in 1993, the last in 2006. It is a multi-authored work contains detailed descriptions, distributional information, identification keys, numerous illustrations, and considerable additional information for each taxon. The distributional information is given in terms of regions. This site offers a view of the distributional information in the flora.
Contacts: Mary Barkworth, mary.barkworth@usu.edu
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 July 2015
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Collection Statistics
  • 8,056 specimen records
  • 8,052 (100%) georeferenced
  • 157 families
  • 935 genera
  • 2,805 species
Extra Statistics
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acanthospermum (1)
  • Ageratum (1)
  • Aspilia (8)
  • Athroisma (3)
  • Bidens (9)
  • Blainvillea (1)
  • Blepharispermum (15)
  • Blumea (4)
  • Carthamus (2)
  • Cineraria (1)
  • Cirsium (1)
  • Conyza (9)
  • Crepis (3)
  • Dichrocephala (3)
  • Dicoma (18)
  • Distephanus (1)
  • Echinops (1)
  • Eclipta (5)
  • Emilia (2)
  • Erlangea (6)
  • Euryops (3)
  • Felicia (2)
  • Flaveria (5)
  • Galinsoga (2)
  • Geigeria (4)
  • Gerbera (1)
  • Grangea (1)
  • Gutenbergia (7)
  • Gynura (2)
  • Helianthus (1)
  • Helichrysum (26)
  • Iphiona (2)
  • Iphionopsis (7)
  • Jurinea (2)
  • Kleinia (39)
  • Lactuca (2)
  • Laggera (2)
  • Launaea (30)
  • Litogyne (3)
  • Osteospermum (4)
  • Pegolettia (2)
  • Pentanema (2)
  • Pentzia (2)
  • Pluchea (28)
  • Prenanthes (1)
  • Pseudoblepharispermum (1)
  • Pseudognaphalium (1)
  • Psiadia (9)
  • Pulicaria (48)
  • Reichardia (3)
  • Sclerocarpus (2)
  • Senecio (2)
  • Solanecio (2)
  • Sonchus (3)
  • Sphaeranthus (8)
  • Tagetes (2)
  • Tarchonanthus (2)
  • Tridax (3)
  • Verbesina (1)
  • Vernonia (44)
  • Volutaria (3)
  • Xanthium (2)
  • Zinnia (1)