Plant information whats on offer SANBI

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• Plant information whats on offer _at_ SANBI
• P.M. Burgoyne
• South African National Biodiversity Institute
• Private Bag X101, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa.
• Research Fellow, College of Agriculture and
  Environmental Science,
• University of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, UNISA
  Pretoria 0003, South
• Africa.

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SANBI primarily started as a Botanical Research
Institute and grew from there to encompass more.
Comprises three herbaria Compton Herbarium
KZN Herbarium National Herbarium
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Species data is based on herbarium specimens
collected from 1564 up to present. Total number
of accessions - 926 971 and more.
Agrostis spica-venti L.
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In early 1980s it was envisioned that all
specimens in National Herbarium should be data
based electronically. National Herbarium (Pta)
was first herbarium in the world to be
electronically data based. PRECIS was born
(PREtoria Computerised Information System).
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Expanded from there as GIS grew
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Much more than I can cover heresee SANBI website
for more
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BGIS
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SIBIS SANBIS Integrated Biodiversity
Information System
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Threatened species
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VEGMAP
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API - African Plants Initiative, - funded by
Mellon Foundation (SANBI / KEW fascilitated, now
hosted by UNISA) Aim to have electronically
available the type specimens of all African
plants.
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AGIS, Not SANBI but ARC, Alien invader
database.
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Thats all folks!