italic_description: Get descriptions of lichen taxa

In ritalic: Interface to the ITALIC Database of Lichen Biodiversity

Get descriptions of lichen taxa

Description

Retrieves morphological descriptions and additional taxonomic or ecological notes about lichen taxa present in the Checklist of the Lichens of Italy. Only accepts names that exist in the database of ITALIC.

Usage

italic_description(sp_names)

Arguments

sp_names

Character vector of accepted names

Value

A data frame with columns:

scientific_name

The scientific name provided as input

description

Morphological description

notes

Additional taxonomic or ecological information

Note

Before using this function with a list of names, first obtain their accepted names using italic_match(). Example workflow:

      names_matched <- italic_match(your_names)
      descriptions <- italic_description(names_matched$accepted_name)
      

Examples

## Not run: 
italic_description("Cetraria islandica (L.) Ach. subsp. islandica")

## End(Not run)

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