Description
Flora Polonica, aimed to document the flora of Poland, is a collection of over 100,000 herbarium specimens of vascular plants collected in the territory of the Second Polish Republic, currently Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine. About 1/3 of the specimens come from the 19th century (beginning in the 1820s), the rest from the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection includes small thematic collections and materials related to master's and doctoral theses.
The largest number of specimens was provided by Polish botanists: in the 19th century Kazimierz Łapczyński, Ferdynand Karo, Karol Drymmer and Felix Berdau, and in the 20th century Roman Kobendza, Wacław Gajewski, Kazimierz Nowak and Halina Galera. This collection includes species of Polish flora (native, grown in the ground and introduced), but there are also exotic species grown in greenhouses, such as Edward Strasburger's collection from 1863 from the Botanical Garden of the University of Warsaw.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 99,183 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Graniszewska M (2025). Flora Polonica. Version 1.6. University of Warsaw. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-uw-flora-polonica&v=1.6
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Warsaw. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7c4d2e24-6e2e-40c4-823f-062de238d144. University of Warsaw publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Polish Biodiversity Information Network.
Keywords
Occurrence; KSIB; Digital Poland: IMBIO Project; Polish Biodiversity Information Network; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0509-4408
- Editor
Geographic Coverage
Poland and E Europe
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [46.68, 14], North East [56.365, 34.014] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Kingdom | Plantae, Fungi, Chromista |
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Project Data
The dataset resulted from the digitization project IMBIO, supported by the Operational Programme Digital Poland in 2020-2023. The IMBIO project is the most extensive Polish enterprise of natural data digitization, with respect to its range, complexity and volume of the processed content. There is 18 participant institutions with the University of Warsaw as a leader. The project delivered 9.5 million of occurrence records, c.a. 2 million of which are based on specimens deposited in collections, and the remaining data derived from other types of scientific sources: card files, legacy materials and bibliography, publicly unavailable older databases. Integration of these resources has made them accessible and searchable. The access platform is the new version of the Biodiversity Map portal (BioMap, https://portal.biomap.pl), while externally the resources are published via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
| Title | Integration and Mobilization of Data about Biotic Diversity of Eukaryota in Resources of Polish Scientific Institutions (IMBIO) |
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| Identifier | IMBIO |
| Funding | Project ID: POPC.02.03.01-00-0081/19. The funding source: the Operational Programme Digital Poland 2014-2020, category: 2.3.1 Digital access to public sector information from administrative sources and scientific resources (type II: Digital access to scientific resources). We gratefully acknowledge Polish high-performance computing infrastructure PLGrid (HPC Centers: ACK Cyfronet AGH) for providing computer facilities and support within computational grant no. PLG/2024/017791 |
The personnel involved in the project:
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 7c4d2e24-6e2e-40c4-823f-062de238d144 |
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| https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-uw-flora-polonica |