The GBIF publisher Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica updated its dataset Flora-on with about 105 thousand new georreferenced records of plant occurrences in Portugal. The dataset now publishes more than a quarter million records through GBIF, covering all of Mainland Portugal. Records are submitted to the Flora-On by more than 80 botanists and expert naturalists.
Observation records are submitted by Flora-On contributors through the portal, who add about 50 thousand new records every year. It is expected that in the future there will be new updates on the data resource, increasing the spatial and temporal coverage at the national level. The Flora-On portal was launched in 2012.
The Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica is the largest GBIF publisher from Portugal of occurrence records. Apart from this organization, there are eight other publishers which contribute with a total of 14 datasets, corresponding to more than 400 thousand records, and with three checklist datasets.