Here we have the final update for the month! Firstly a big thanks to everyone who helped to contribute, in ways big or small. Your help is appreciated and maybe you even learned a thing or two about the flora of africa! :) The project also seems to have sparked discussions on best practices which will hopefully lead to fruitful results down the line.

Now for some highlights from the data: Thanks to a large push at the end of the month the number of Unknowns uploaded prior to 01-05-2023 has been reduced to zero from 10.5k ! I first thought it was an error in my links but it is true. Number of obs stuck at Kingdom Plantae has been reduced by 13 000 (63 %). Not a lot of movement in Casual obs, but the increasing number seems to indicate that some additional garden plants have been marked captive. Then lastly more than 5900 obs have been moved to research grade in Africa (excluding the Cape floristic region)! Although percentage-wise this might not seem like a lot (3.3 %), considering the time and level of knowledge needed to definitively ID these sometimes obscure or poorly documented species, I feel that it is something we can be incredibly proud of.

I will be saying goodbye to this project for now (I do have a thesis I need to write...) but I hope to see some you in the dicots of Tanzania or the thorn trees in Namibia.

Take care!

Number of observations in thousands for Africa excluding the Cape (counts including Cape in brackets).

Observations not in Flora of Africa. Black lines are including the Cape

Change in observations in Flora of Africa, relative to start of project.

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