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Scope and Format of the Nomenclatural Data from the Zingiberaceae Database

Database system

The Zingiberaceae Database is held in the RBGE Pandora database system. This DOS-based application is written in Advanced Revelation and has a highly relational structure. Data export and HTML search facility were generated from Advanced Revelation files using HTMLEXPORT written by Martin Pullan.

Language

English

Size/coverage

2950*plant names
2280plant names verified against the original publication (78% of names)
120plant names with type information (4% of names)
800author name combinations
550verified bibliographic references
1200people records
2950herbarium specimen records
3150determinations
2130localities in the gazetteer

* This figure is difficult to compare to IK but it is known that there are names in IK which do not yet appear here. Early editions of IK put all names in Zingiberales directly into Scitamineae whereas later editions put names into the families of Zingiberales. Thus, the second edition of IK on CD-ROM gives 3403 names in Scitamineae and 1733 in Zingiberaceae but neither of these figures is the total number of names published in Zingiberaceae. Supervisor Mark Newman, Edinburgh

Data layout

Original publication: bibliographic citation for the place of valid publication. If this does not include any data then the original publication has not been authenticated.

Types: When type specimen information is given, the kind of type is indicated by HOLO, ISO etc. An exclamation mark shows that the specimen has been seen by the compilers.

Basionym: for recombinations the basionym should be indicated.

Combination list: for names that have been used as a basionym a list of all the names based on this name is provided.

N.B. Dates are in DD.MM.YYYY fornat, double zero entries indicate missing information, e.g. 00.00.1857 indicates the date was given to year accuracy, and  00.06.1976 only to month, etc.
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