This github repository is intended to provide an up-to-date database of scientific names of plants (mostly woody plants) in Panama, together with their 6-letter and 4-letter codes (as used in Smithsonian research), and histories of changes in species names associated with these codes.
Current files and their provenance:
Condit-et-al_2020_PanamaTreeSpDataset.pdf is the dataset description file for Condit et al. 2020 dataset of tree species names.
Full bibliographic info: Condit, Richard; Pérez, Rolando; Aguilar, Salomón (2020), Complete Tree Species of Panama, v2, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.15146/R3M97W
PanamaTreeSpecies.tsv is part of Condit et al. 2020, as described in Condit-et-al_2020_PanamaTreeSpDataset.pdf. In brief, "A tab-delimited ascii table including a record for 3045 tree species we consider native to Panama." Columns: Family Latin Author countries minLat maxLat minLong maxLong Npan N range plots dens inventories maxht
PanamaTreeNameLookup.tsv is part of Condit et al. 2020, as described in Condit-et-al_2020_PanamaTreeSpDataset.pdf.
In brief, "A tab-delimited ascii table including a record for 4497 Latin names which we found to be associated with the native tree species of Panama, including the 3045 currently accepted names plus 1452 alternate names."
Columns: Family Latin Author ValidLatin Scope
nomenclature_R_20210224_Rready.csv is a file from S. Joseph Wright with Panama plant species codes and info, including trees, lianas, herbaceous plants, etc. (2036 rows).
Columns: sp4 sp6 family genus species deciduous oldname climber free liana vine shrub understory midstory tree herb epiphyte hemiepiphyte parasite.
Note that all the columns from climber to parasite have entries of 1, 0 or NA.
WARNING: importing this file into Excel will automatically change some species codes to dates.
ViewTaxonomy2024-04-30.xlsx is a file from Suzanne Lao on Panama tree species maintained by ForestGEO (1430 rows). Columns: Family mnemonic Genus SpeciesName Rank Supspecies IDlevel supspMnemonic
CTFSSpeciesList1.xls is a file from an unknown source with Panama tree species (1362 rows). Columns: Family Genus species subspecies mnemonic IDlevel Authority PriorNames SpeciesID
Schnitzer_2019-03_New species names table1.xls is a BCI liana species list from Stefan Schnitzer (223 rows)). Columns: species (actual) FINAL SP Codigos Genus species Nombres actualizados Notas Nombre original de Stefan ROLANDO'S Codigos Unique species codes error?