Specimen references on the Verbenaceae family held by the TAN Herbarium

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (P.B.Z.T.) on Oct 15, 2019 Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (P.B.Z.T.)
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October 15, 2019
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Description

The Tsimbazaza Park was created in August 29th, 1925 in the city of Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar. Initially it was named the "Botanical Garden of Tananarive" consisting of thematic areas. In 1935, the construction of animal cages and breeding in captivity began. His name has changed "Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tananarive". In 1947, it was the only "National Research Center" in Madagascar and worked in collaboration with the Overseas Scientific and Technical Research Office (ORSTOM). In 1993 after having its status, it took the name "Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (PBZT)" until today and under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. It is made up of four departments: Fauna, Flora, Environmental Conservation Education and finally Administrative and Financial.The TAN Herbarium belongs to the Flora Department, particularly at the Herbarium Division. It is one of the three national reference Herbaria existing in Madagascar. The Herbarium Room was created around 1950. The first extension, funded by the Winslow Foundation with the help of the Missouri Botanical Garden, was made in 2004. Currently, it is the largest herbarium of the western Indian Ocean. The TAN herbarium consists of three rooms and two storage rooms. It contains Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Ferns, Mosses and some species of Lichen. The oldest known collection is dated from 1831. The total number of herbarium specimens to be conserved is estimated to 258,000 of which 200,000 are mounted with 177,000 classified in the cabinets and 23,000 unclassified and the remaining 50,000 are unmounted. Currently 850 type specimens were recorded. The Herbarium TAN is one of the largest places that conserves the biodiversity of Madagascar. It is a laboratory where researchers and students draw information for their work. Each year, there are at least twenty students doing their internships.This part will concern the Verbenacea family sensus lato (e.g. with the species which were formerly included to it but now migrated to the Lamiaceae).

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Letsara R (2019): Specimen references on the Verbenaceae family held by the TAN Herbarium. v1.2. Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (P.B.Z.T.). Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.madbif.mg/resource?r=tan_verbenaceae&v=1.2

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (P.B.Z.T.). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 61132471-7cf5-4e6a-9b06-5b90cf50b9fe.  Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza (P.B.Z.T.) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Madagascar.

Keywords

Verbenaceae; occurrence; invasive species; biodiversity; Specimen

Contacts

Rokiman Letsara
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Author ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Researcher
PBZT
  • Rue Fernand Kasanga, Tsimbazaza
101 Antananarivo
Antananarivo
MG
  • +261320248766
Jaona Ranaivo
  • Metadata Provider
  • Researcher
MadBIF
  • CNRE Fiadanana
101 Antananarivo
Antananarivo
MG
  • +261330277279
Solo Hery Jean Victor Rapanarivo
  • Curator
  • Head of the Flora Department
PBZT
  • Rue Fernand Kasanga, Tsimbazaza
101 Antananarivo
Antananarivo
MG
  • +261320776590
Solo Hery Jean Victor Rapanarivo
  • Curator
  • Head of Flora Department
PBZT
  • Rue Fernand Kasanga, Tsimbazaza
101 Antananarivo
Antananarivo
MG
  • +261320776590
Jaona Ranaivo
  • Metadata Provider
MadBIF
  • CNRE Fiadanana
101 Antananarivo
Antananarivo
MG
  • +261330277279
Herizo RANDRIAMBANONA
  • Metadata Provider
  • Node manager
MadBIF
  • Po Box 1739 Antananarivo
101 Antananarivo
Antananarivo
MG
  • +261346038486

Geographic Coverage

The specimens were collected mainly from Madagascar, with some few records from the surrounding islands and some African countries

Bounding Coordinates South West [-26, 42], North East [-11, 51]

Taxonomic Coverage

This data concerns all existing Genus in the Sapotaceae family in Madagascar.

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Tracheophyta
Class Magnoliopsida
Order Lamiales
Family Verbenaceae

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 1831-current

Project Data

The digitizing of the plant reference specimens of TAN Herbarium was initiated during SEP-CEPDEC 1, the BID program allowed to continue the digitization of some threatened and invasive species (https://www.gbif.org/project/82750/capacity-building-and-biodiversity-data-mobilization-for-conservation-and-policy-in-africa.)

Title Mobilization of reference specimens data on the Verbenaceae family at TAN herbarium
Identifier BID-AF2015-0066-REG
Funding The digitization of this family has been possible thanks to the European Union funding through the BID program coordinated by GBIF.
Study Area Description Invasive alien species and endangered species were the two first of the eight priority areas defined by the ACM in each WP 2015 - 2016. In this regards the consortium retained eight families of each category for the project. The Verbenaceae family was choosen by the consortium as one of the priority family of the invasive species.
Design Description Invasive alien species and endangered species were the two first of the eight priority areas defined by the ACM in each WP 2015 - 2016. In this regards the consortium retained eight families of each category for the project. The Verbenaceae family was choosen by the consortium as one of the priority family of the invasive species. The species formerely belonging to the Verbenaceae family but now migrated to Lamiaceae is included in the database.

The personnel involved in the project:

Rokiman Letsara
  • Author
Solo Hery Jean Victor Rapanarivo
  • Curator
Franck Rakotonasolo
  • Content Provider
Jaona Ranaivo
  • Metadata Provider
Herizo Randriambanona
  • User

Sampling Methods

All the specimens are systematically recorded

Study Extent This digitization concerns the Verbenaceae family sens lato (e.g. with the species formerely included to but now migrated to Lamiaceae) specimens mainly collected in Madagascar and conserved at the TAN Herbarium.

Method step description:

  1. The digitization was done by the PBZT staff who performed as well nomenclatural checking using APNI. Further quality checking was carried out by MadBIF staff who formated also the data to DwC. The scientific names were submitted to TNRS application and those which were not fully validated were checked with Catalogue of life, Tropicos and Plantlist. When any of these databases do not validate the given lowermost taxonomic rank scientific name, we adopt the rank of the lowermost validated name as taxonRank, however, we keep the given identification name.

Collection Data

Collection Name Vascular plants at TAN
Collection Identifier TRACHEO_TAN
Specimen preservation methods Dried and pressed

Additional Metadata