Get The Plant List families.

tpl_families(...)

Arguments

...

(list) Curl options passed on to crul::verb-GET

Value

Returns a data.frame including the names of all families indexed by The Plant List, and the major groups into which they fall (i.e. Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Bryophytes and Pteridophytes).

Details

Requires an internet connection in order to connect to <www.theplantlist.org>.

See also

Author

John Baumgartner (johnbb@student.unimelb.edu.au)

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Get a data.frame of plant families, with the group name 
# (Angiosperms, etc.)
head(tpl_families())
}