Description

Family names and their replacements from the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website system of flowering plant classification.

Format

A data frame with 1705 rows and 6 variables:

• family: family name

• synonym: if accepted=FALSE, this is the accepted name; if accepted=TRUE, this is NA, and the name in family is accepted

• order: order name for the family

• accepted: logical, if name in family column is accepted or not

• original: original data record from APG website, mapping name in family column to a new name, if there is one

• accepted_name: accepted name. accepted names, combining those that are accepted from family column, with the new name from synonym if applicable

Details

This dataset is from Version 14, incorporated on 2020-06-03, generated using apgFamilies()

(update script in inst/ignore/apg_script.R)

Source

http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/