Flora of Burkina Faso – a new catalogue of the vascular plants

Marco Schmidt, Adjima Thiombiano, Stefan Dressler,Amadé Ouédraogo, Karen Hahn & Georg Zizka

20th AETFAT congress, Stellenbosch, 13-17 Jan 2014

Guinko 1984: 1024 spp.

Thiombiano et al. 2012: 2067 spp.

Lebrun et al. 1991: 1203 spp.

30 years of progress on the flora

Digitization of OUA/FR collections

Identifying sampling gaps

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Gap selection index (García-Marquez et al. 2012)

Focussed collection activities

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• Collecting expeditions

• PhD theses

Focussed collection activities

Database

Integration of information from...

• herbarium databases

• floras

• plant use literature

• taxonomic databases

• distribution data

• etc.

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Contents

Contents

Contents

Contents

• Synonymy

• References / Iconography

• Vernacular Names (Mooré / French)

• Life form

• Medicinal use

• Human and animal food

• Other uses

• Habitat

• Phytosociology

• Other ecology

• Distribution

• Specimens

Species composition

Fabaceae29015%

Poaceae28114%

Cyperaceae1477%

Asteraceae945%

Malvaceae814%Rubiaceae

794%Apocynaceae

663%

Euphorb.593%

Convolv.472%

Acanth.422%

Lam.362%

Vit.302%

Others72037%

Talk by Georg Zizka

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Talk by Alexander Zizka

Perspective eFlora

Catalogue database

Herbarium databases

Photos, other data sourceseFlora platform

Perspective eFlora

Catalogue database

Collection data

Distribution data

PhotosIntegration intoeFlora platform

Expert involvementIntegration of keys,

etc.

Full eFlorafamily treatments print volumes?

Many thanks to...Jean-Pierre Lebrun

Laurent Aké-Assi

European commission

BMBF

Editorial team of Boissiera

Field / herbarium / database assistants

Thank you for your attention!