CTPL: Search Families Based on Scientific or Chinese Names of...

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

Description

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, print_as_list = TRUE)

Arguments

taxa	Character vector of the species names (Chinese Characters).
print_as_list	Logical, implying how the results should be printed, if TRUE, use the function print.listof() to print.

Details

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

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

Author(s)

Jinlong Zhang [e-mail]

References

The Plant List Website.

Examples

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plantlist documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:45 p.m.