vascular.families {WorldFlora}

Orders and Higher Level Classifications of Vascular Plants

Description

This data set lists orders for families of vascular plants (angiosperms, gymnosperms and pteridophytes). For angiosperms, information from orders and higher levels of classification correspond to the fourth update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG IV, doi:10.1111/boj.12385). Higher levels of classification correspond to names of nodes of the consensus tree (Figure 1 in doi:10.1111/boj.12385). Orders for gymnosperms and pteridophytes were obtained from the website of Missouri Botanical Garden.

Usage

data(vascular.families)

Format

A data frame with 476 observations on the following 10 variables.

Group

Group.

Family.ID

Unique ID for each family. For angiosperms, these correspond to APG IV.

Family

Name of the plant family.

Family.taxonID

taxonID retrieved from World Flora Online.

Order

Name of the plant order.

Order.taxonID

taxonID retrieved from World Flora Online.

Node.1

Name of the node in the consensus tree.

Node.2

Name of the node in the consensus tree, with Node.2 nested within Node.1.

Node.3

Name of the node in the consensus tree, with Node.3 nested within Node.2.

Node.4

Name of the node in the consensus tree, with Node.4 nested within Node.3.

References

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, M. W. Chase, M. J. M. Christenhusz, M. F. Fay, J. W. Byng, W. S. Judd, D. E. Soltis, D. J. Mabberley, A. N. Sennikov, P. S. Soltis, P. F. Stevens, An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181: 1-20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385

Examples

data(vascular.families)