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      Colección Viva del Jardín Botánico de Bogotá, Colombia Translated title: Living Collection of the Botanical Garden of Bogotá, Colombia

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          Resumen El Jardín Botánico de Bogotá José Celestino Mutis tiene una amplia colección de plantas vivas, con la que se promueve la investigación y conservación ex situ de la flora, con énfasis en la región andina, y que es visitada continuamente por la ciudadanía. En años recientes, se fortaleció la sistematización, georreferenciación, enriquecimiento y señalización de los individuos en las diferentes zonas del Jardín. En especial, el desarrollo de bases de datos y la aplicación de tecnologías de la información han permitido la actualización del inventario. La base de datos de la colección abarca 19 546 accesiones georreferenciadas, que corresponden a 184 familias, 723 géneros y 1185 especies de plantas, entre las que están 89 en categorías de amenaza a nivel nacional. Se sugiere continuar con la documentación de nuevos individuos, y aumentar el nivel de determinación taxonómica. Además, seguir con el mantenimiento y mejora de las bases de datos de la Colección Viva y avanzar en su interoperabilidad con otras bases, como las colecciones de referencia, y evaluar estrategias de publicación.

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          Abstract The José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden of Bogotá has a wide collection of living plants, with which ex situ research and conservation of flora is promoted, with emphasis on the Andean region, and which is continuously visited by citizens. In recent years, the systematization, georeferencing, enrichment and signaling of individuals in the different areas of the Garden have been strengthened. In particular, the development of databases and the application of information technologies have made it possible to update the inventory. The collection database includes 19 546 georeferenced accessions, corresponding to 184 families, 723 genera and 1185 plant species, among which 89 are in threat categories at the national level. The documentation of new individuals continues, and the level of taxonomic determination increases. In addition, continue with the maintenance and improvement of the living collection databases and advance their interoperability with other databases, such as reference collections, and evaluate publication strategies.

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          An Ethnobotanical Survey of a Dryland Botanical Garden and Its Environs in Kenya: The Mutomo Hill Plant Sanctuary

          Mutomo hill plant sanctuary is a ten-hectare piece of land in Kenya listed as a botanical garden under the Botanical Gardens Conservation International, originally established in 1964 with the aim of conserving indigenous flora from destructive anthropogenic activities. This paper presents ethnobotanical documentation of medicinal plants of Mutomo hill plant sanctuary and its environs. An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in Mutomo hill plant sanctuary and its environs with 48 herbalists aged between 32 and 96 years from July 2018 to February 2019 using a semistructured open-ended questionnaire. The plants were collected through random surveys with each herbalist in different ecotypes around the villages and within the Mutomo hill plant sanctuary. The Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC) for each species reported was calculated to determine the plant species frequently collected. In total, 68 different plant species distributed in 28 families and 54 genera were reported. The frequently used plant families were Leguminosae (13 species), Lamiaceae (6 species), and Euphorbiaceae (6 species). Shrubs (37%) and trees (34%) were the dominant growth habits reported. The most cited plant species were Cassia abbreviata Oliv. (RFC = 0.63), Acacia nilotica (L.). Delile (RFC = 0.54), Strychnos heningsii Gilg (RFC = 0.46), and Aloe secundiflora Engl. (RFC = 0.31). Root (19 species) and bark (19 species) were the frequently collected plant parts. Infectious diseases (33) and digestive system disorders (24) were reported to be managed with the majority of the plant species. This study contributes to safeguarding the traditional knowledge on medicinal plants in the study area, which is useful in appreciating and acknowledging the cultural heritage of the Kamba people from the local perspective of Mutomo area in Kenya. It also adds to the knowledge base and documentation of medicinal plants, which is useful information as potential data for drug development.
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            Designing an Herbarium Digitisation Workflow with Built-In Image Quality Management

            Abstract Digitisation of natural history collections has evolved from creating databases for the recording of specimens’ catalogue and label data to include digital images of specimens. This has been driven by several important factors, such as a need to increase global accessibility to specimens and to preserve the original specimens by limiting their manual handling. The size of the collections pointed to the need of high throughput digitisation workflows. However, digital imaging of large numbers of fragile specimens is an expensive and time-consuming process that should be performed only once. To achieve this, the digital images produced need to be useful for the largest set of applications possible and have a potentially unlimited shelf life. The constraints on digitisation speed need to be balanced against the applicability and longevity of the images, which, in turn, depend directly on the quality of those images. As a result, the quality criteria that specimen images need to fulfil influence the design, implementation and execution of digitisation workflows. Different standards and guidelines for producing quality research images from specimens have been proposed; however, their actual adaptation to suit the needs of different types of specimens requires further analysis. This paper presents the digitisation workflow implemented by Meise Botanic Garden (MBG). This workflow is relevant because of its modular design, its strong focus on image quality assessment, its flexibility that allows combining in-house and outsourced digitisation, processing, preservation and publishing facilities and its capacity to evolve for integrating alternative components from different sources. The design and operation of the digitisation workflow is provided to showcase how it was derived, with particular attention to the built-in audit trail within the workflow, which ensures the scalable production of high-quality specimen images and how this audit trail ensures that new modules do not affect either the speed of imaging or the quality of the images produced.
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              Fenología de cuatro especies arbóreas de bosque seco tropical en el Jardín Botánico Universitario, Universidad del Valle (Cali), Colombia

              Se evaluaron los patrones fenológicos y la eficiencia de la frecuencia de muestreo en especímenes de Jacaranda caucana, Pithecellobium dulce, Samanea saman y Tabebuia rosea, especies representativas de bosque seco tropical en el Jardín Botánico Universitario de la Universidad del Valle (Cali), Colombia. Se observaron semanalmente fenofases vegetativas y reproductivas en 20 individuos de cada especie durante un año. Se encontró que el muestreo quincenal es la frecuencia óptima para registrar la fenología de las cuatro especies en el área de estudio. Sólo se observó una tendencia bimodal en la floración de J. caucana y S. saman, y en la caída de follaje de S. saman y T. rosea. La producción de botones florales y flores en las especies estudiadas, incrementó cuando aumentó la precipitación o inmediatamente después. En J. caucana, la ocurrencia de botones florales, flores y frutos maduros tuvieron una correlación inversa con la precipitación y directa con la temperatura. Las fenofases de T. rosea y S. saman no tuvieron correlación significativa con la precipitación o la temperatura. La especie P. dulce mostró una tendencia a fructificar con la disminución de las lluvias y a reducir el rebrote con el aumento de la temperatura. Se concluye que la fenología de las especies evaluadas está relacionada principalmente con la precipitación y que éstas, a excepción de J. caucana, pueden ser consideradas como subanuales. De este modo, los estudios en entornos urbanos pueden constituirse como una herramienta importante para el conocimiento de los ciclos biológicos de las especies en condiciones ex situ.
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                Journal
                biota
                Biota colombiana
                Biota colombiana
                Instituto Alexander von Humboldt (Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia )
                0124-5376
                2539-200X
                December 2021
                : 22
                : 2
                : 163-172
                Affiliations
                [3] Bogotá Arauca orgnameUniversidad Nacional de Colombia Colombia djvelasqueznino@ 123456gmail.com
                [2] Bogotá Arauca orgnameUniversidad Nacional de Colombia Colombia dayana.jbb@ 123456gmail.com
                [1] Bogotá Bogotá orgnameUniversidad Militar Nueva Granada Colombia cecadena@ 123456gmail.com
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                S0124-53762021000200163 S0124-5376(21)02200200163
                10.21068/c2021.v22n02a10
                28ed09c9-ad3d-402d-b35c-d080ca944ba2

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                : 17 July 2020
                : 25 November 2020
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                Inventario.,Threatened species.,Botánica,Colecciones vivas,Conservación,Especies amenazadas,Botany,Conservation,Living collection,Inventory

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