Search Families Based on Scientific or Chinese Names of Plants

This function prepare checklist of plants with scientific name, Kew Family and APGIII family based on Chinese Names specified in an text file.

Usage

CTPL(taxa = NULL)

Arguments

taxa

Character vector of the species names (Chinese Characters).

Value

A data frame containing the following columns:

TAXA_NAME

Chinese Name of the taxa

SPECIES

Scientific name without authorship

SPECIES_FULL

Scientific name

GENUS

Genus

GENUS_CN

Genus in Chinese

FAMILY_APGIII

The family in APGIII classification systems

FAMILY_CN

The family name in Chinese

GROUP

The group of vascular plants

IUCN_CHINA

The IUCN status published in 2014.

ENDEMIC_TO_CHINA

Logical, Is the taxa endemic to China

PROVINTIAL_DISTRIBUTION

Provinces in which the taxa is naturally occurred

ALTITUDE

Altitudinal range in meters

Details

A vector of character strings containing the Chinese Names to look up.

References

The Plant List Website.

Author

Jinlong Zhang jinlongzhang01@gmail.com

Examples

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