Download REFLORA specimen records

Here in this article, we show how to use the package’s function reflora_summary for summarizing information about all REFLORA-associated collections.

Download all specimen records

The following code can be used to download original specimen records in Darwin Core Format and associated metada for all REFLORA collections.

reflora_download(verbose = TRUE,
                 dir = "reflora_download")

Download specimen records for specific collections

By specifying a vector of herbarium acronyms, the user can download specimens records for just the specific herbarium collection.

reflora_download(herbarium = c("ALCB", "HUEFS", "RB", "US", "K"),
                 verbose = TRUE,
                 dir = "reflora_download")