Flora of Greenland Checklist

Ida Bomholt Dyrholm Jacobsen1, Isabel Calabuig2, Tyge Wittrock Böcher3, Kjeld Axel Holmen3, Knud Jakobsen4

1 Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Kivipq 2, 3900, Nuuk, Greenland; 2 DanBIF, Natural History Museum of Denmark, , Denmark; 3 Københavns Universitet, , Denmark; 4 Uknown, , Denmark

Corresponding author(s): Ida Bomholt Dyrholm Jacobsen (idja@natur.gl)

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Resource Citation

Jacobsen I B D (2020): Flora of Greenland Checklist. v1.3. Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. Dataset/Checklist. https://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=flora-of-greenland-checklist&v=1.3

Abstract

This is a checklist of all native and naturalized taxa of vascular plants (species, subspecies, forma, and varieties) mentioned as occurring in Greenland in Grønlands Flora, Böcher, Holmen, and Jakobsen, Haase, 1978. The checklist is a historically important inventory of the taxa occurring in Greenland known in 1978.

Some taxa have been omitted even though mentioned in the flora: (1) Taxa mentioned as “possibly” or “maybe” occurring in Greenland, (2) Taxa not mentioned by unanimous scientific name (a few mentioned by chromosome number but not named), (3) Hybrids, (4) Taxa described as only occurring in Greenland as cultivated or farmed species have not been included. With the exception of taxa mentioned in full numbered description on level with all other main taxa (e.g. Avena sativa #706). 

The total number of native and naturalized taxa mentioned in Groenlands Flora is 766. This high number of taxa includes 583 species, 81 subspecies (15 species only represented by descriptions of subspecies or lower rank), 27 forma and 73 varieties. This number is much higher than the 497 native species which the authors state to have included 497. This inventory finds that the flora includes descriptions of 468 species (15 represented be description of subspecies) of native and naturalized species, 26 forma, 80 subspecies and 72 varieties).  There is no detailed description of which species the authors included in their count in what categories.

Keywords: Checklist; Flora of Greenland

General description

Purpose: The purpose of this checklist dataset to bring the content of Flora of Greenland into the digitized world of databases and GBIF.  
Additional information: No further information. 

Data published through GBIF: https://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=flora-of-greenland-checklist

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Kingdom Plantae (Plants)

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: This checklist is of the vascular plants of occurring in Greenland known in 1978.
Coordinates: 59°21'50.4''N and 83°52'4.8''N Latitude; 74°10'48''W and 10°11'42''W Longitude 

Formation period: Up until 1978

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	Registration of individual taxon
- . 	Spell check of scientific names
- . 	Spell check of author abbreviations
- . 	Registration of status (native/non-native/Both native and non-native strains)
- . 	Cross checking taxon and flora
Study extent description: This study is based on a thorough and meticulous examination of the species mentioned in Grønlands Flora (Flora of Greenland), Böher et al, Haase, 1978, which represented the most comprehensive synopsis of the flora of Greenland at the time of its publication in 1978. 
Sampling description: Study of literature. The book Grønlands Flora has been meticulously and systematically examined and each mentioned taxon registered.  
Quality control description: Internal quality control and cross checking have been performed. 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Flora of Greenland Checklist
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://danbif.au.dk/ipt/archive.do?r=flora-of-greenland-checklist
Publication date of data: 2020-12-14
Language: Danish
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-12-09
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Böcher, T.W., Holmen, K. & Jakobsen, K. (1978). P. Haase & Søns Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark ISBN 87-559-0385-1 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183098604