Search Tropicos by scientific name, common name, or Tropicos ID.

tp_search(
  sci = NULL,
  com = NULL,
  nameid = NULL,
  orderby = NULL,
  sortorder = NULL,
  pagesize = NULL,
  startrow = NULL,
  type = NULL,
  key = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  commonname = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

sci: A scientific name, e.g., "poa annua". See Details.
com: A common name, e.g., "annual blue grass"
nameid: Your search string. e.g., "25509881"
orderby: Your search string. e.g., "1"
sortorder: Your search string. e.g., "ascending"
pagesize: Your search string. e.g., "100"
startrow: Your search string. e.g., "1"
type: Type of search, "wildcard" (default) will add a wildcard to the end of your search string. "exact" will use your search string exactly.
key: Your Tropicos API key; See taxize-authentication for help on authentication
name: Deprecated, see sci
commonname: Deprecated, see com
...: Further args passed on to crul::HttpClient

Value

List or dataframe.

Details

More details on the name parameter: Tropicos will fail if you include a period (.) in your name string, e.g., var., so we replace periods before the request is made to the Tropicos web service. In addition, Tropicos for some reason doesn't want to see sub-specific rank names like var/subsp, so remove those from your query.

References

http://services.tropicos.org/help?method=SearchNameXml

Examples

if (FALSE) {
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua')
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua subsp. annua')
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua var. annua')
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua var annua')
tp_search(sci = 'Poa annua annua')
}