Subject area	Botany
More specific subject area	Geobotany, Floristics, Chorology
Type of data	Vector ESRI shapefiles, text file
How data was acquired	Geographic information system (GIS)
Data format	Analysed
Experimental factors	Printed maps in published monographs were scanned/digitalized, then all images were geo-referenced with GIS software.
Experimental features	Geo-referenced partial and complete chorological maps and species occurrence geodatabases were overlaid, compared and merged to create new updated distribution range maps in geographic digital format.
Data source location	Worldwide
Data accessibility	On Mendeley Data repository: http://data.mendeley.com/datasets/hr5h2hcgg4