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Looking Up the Status of Plant Scientific Names based on The Plant List Database

Source: R/plantlist-package.R
plantlist-package.Rd

Looking up the status of scientific names based on the Plant List Database and search the Families for genus.

Author

Jinlong Zhang

Maintainer: Jinlong Zhang <jinlongzhang01@gmail.com>

Examples



TPL("Carex")
#>   YOUR_SEARCH POSSIBLE_GENUS     FAMILY FAMILY_NUMBER  ORDER       GROUP
#> 1       Carex          Carex Cyperaceae    APGIII_099 Poales Angiosperms
TPL("Cherry")
#>   YOUR_SEARCH POSSIBLE_GENUS FAMILY FAMILY_NUMBER ORDER GROUP
#> 1      Cherry         Cherry   <NA>          <NA>  <NA>  <NA>
splist <- c("Ranunculus japonicus", "Hepatica henryi",
            "Heracleum acuminatum", "Solanum nigrum",
            "Punica sp.", "Machilus", "Today", "####" )
res <- TPL(splist)
taxa.table(res)
#> [1] "Ranunculaceae/Ranunculus/Ranunculus_japonicus"
#> [2] "Ranunculaceae/Hepatica/Hepatica_henryi"       
#> [3] "Apiaceae/Heracleum/Heracleum_acuminatum"      
#> [4] "Solanaceae/Solanum/Solanum_nigrum"            
#> [5] "Lythraceae/Punica/Punica_sp."                 
#> [6] "Lauraceae/Machilus/Machilus"                  
#> [7] "NA/Today/Today"                               
#> [8] "NA/####/####"