Search for taxonomy data from Plantminer.com — plantminer • taxize

Search for taxonomy data from Plantminer.com

plantminer(plants, from = "tpl", messages = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

plants: (character) Vector of plant species names. Required.
from: (character) One of tpl (for theplantlist.com data), or flora (for Brazilian Flora Checklist). Required. Default: tpl
messages: (logical) informative messages or not. Default: TRUE
...: curl options passed on to crul::HttpClient

Value

data.frame of results.

Note

you used to need an API key for Plantminer; it's no longer needed

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# A single taxon
plantminer("Ocotea pulchella")

# Many taxa
plants <- c("Myrcia lingua", "Myrcia bella", "Ocotea pulchella",
    "Miconia", "Coffea arabica var. amarella", "Bleh")
plantminer(plants)

# By deafult, tpl is used, for Theplantlist data,
# toggle the from parameter here
plantminer("Ocotea pulchella", from = "flora")
}