Fig. 1.

Maps showing Guinea’s location, political and geographic features (a), and distribution of botanical collections in space and time (b). (a) Map showing location in West Africa of Republic of Guinea and the four regions in which it is divided. Inset shows Guinea’s location in West Africa. Main map shows boundaries of Guinea’s four regions which are used to summarise species distributions in the Checklist of Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. (b): Map of collection locations of the georeferenced collections in the Guinea Collections Database. Spatial biases in collecting patterns include the following collecting ‘hotspots’: A Mts Nimba; B Mts Simandou; C around the major towns of the Fouta Djallon: Mamou, Dalaba, Pita, Labe and Mali.