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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
  • Afrocanthium (1)
  • Agathisanthemum (1)
  • Canthium (5)
  • Carphalea (8)
  • Catunaregam (1)
  • Coffea (6)
  • Conostomium (5)
  • Coptosperma (13)
  • Diodia (3)
  • Feretia (3)
  • Gaillonia (3)
  • Galium (7)
  • Gardenia (8)
  • Heinsia (1)
  • Kohautia (12)
  • Lamprothamnus (1)
  • Meyna (2)
  • Oldenlandia (24)
  • Oxyanthus (1)
  • Pachystigma (1)
  • Paederia (3)
  • Pavetta (18)
  • Pentanisia (12)
  • Pentanopsis (7)
  • Pentas (4)
  • Pentodon (4)
  • Polysphaeria (2)
  • Psychotria (4)
  • Psydrax (6)
  • Pyrostria (4)
  • Rothmannia (2)
  • Rubia (2)
  • Rytigynia (1)
  • Spermacoce (5)
  • Tennantia (1)
  • Tricalysia (2)
  • Valantia (2)
  • Vangueria (3)
  • Wendlandia (3)