A checklist of wild sorghum species occurring in Malawi

Nolipher Khaki Mponya1, Nolipher Khaki Mponya2, Nigel Maxted3, Moses  Maliro4, Zacharia Magombo5

1 MPGRC, Chitedze Research Station, Box 158, Lilongwe, Malawi; 2 MPGRC, Chitedze Research Station, P.O.Box 158, Lilongwe, Malawi; 3 University of Birmingham, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, B 15 2TT, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 4 Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural resources, Lilongwe, Malawi; 5 National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of Malawi, Zomba

Corresponding author(s): Nolipher Khaki Mponya (noliemponya@yahoo.com)

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Resource Citation

Khaki Mponya N (2019): A checklist of wild sorghum species occurring in Malawi. v1.0. Malawi Plant Genetic Resources Centre (MPGRC). Dataset/Checklist. http://41.77.13.208:8081/ipt http://41.77.13.208:8081/ipt

Abstract

This is a checklist of wild sorghum species observed in Malawi. This resource is submitted under BID_AF2017_0265_SMA project that supported data mobilization of the same. It should be noted that some species had their nomenclature status confirmed while one was not recorded in the The Plant list and is yet to be updated once such data is available. Some species are accepted and others are synonyms of the accepted species. For the sake of maintaining originality of the data, the species were reported as observed.

Keywords: Checklist

Project details

Project title: A checklist of wild sorghum species occurring in Malawi
Personnel: Nolipher Khaki Mponya, Dr. Wilkson Makumba
Funding: The project was supported by European Union and Global Biodiversity Information Facility(GBIF) under the initiative Biodiversity Information for Development(BID)
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The research was conducted in Malawi by the Malawi Plant Genetic Resources Centre referred herein as MPGRC in collaboration with University of Birmingham, National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of Malawi and Lilongwe University for Agriculture and Natural Resources. Species reported in this study were observed across the country.
Design description: The aim of this research was to establish wild sorghum species that occur in number, their diversity and spatial distribution with an aim of developing measures for their sustainable conservation and promoting their use in crop improvement as some of these are reported to harbor some adaptive traits such as pests and disease resistance.

Data published through GBIF: http://41.77.13.208:8081/ipt/resource?r=npgrc

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All wild sorghum plants were identified to family, order and genus. Some were identified to species level and others to species and subspecies level.
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Common names: Sorghum

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Wild sorghum species were observed across the regions of Malawi.
Coordinates: 16°45'44.88''S and 9°21'44.47''S Latitude; 33°5'26.95''E and 35°56'50.16''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: April 22, 1870 - May 27, 2018

Methods

Method step description: Refer to above
Study extent description: Similar to Species occurrence metadata
Sampling description: Refer to Species occurrence metadata
Quality control description: Refer to above

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive A checklist of wild sorghum species occurring in Malawi
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://41.77.13.208:8081/ipt/archive.do?r=npgrc
Publication date of data: 2019-03-27
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-03-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset