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 The Missouri Botanical Garden team initiated contact with Cyrille Chatelain from Geneva, responsible for the African Plant Database (APD),
-and Chatelain provided a copy of the APD for the project. The University of Minnesota team then quality-controlled the APD dataset, and created a clean and
+and Chatelain provided a copy of the APD for the project. The University of Minnesota team (Tim Whitfeld and George Weiblen) then quality-controlled the APD dataset, and created a clean and
 effective version thereof, for use by the project, which has the dual advantage of creating a controlled vocabulary for each institutional dataset, and of moving all
 project datasets to a common taxonomic authority.
-Product: Taxonomy list of African plants prepared by Tim Whitfeld and George Weiblen of the University of Minnesota, including
+Details of taxonomy list:
 families, 6666 genera, 38193 species (accepted names), 43960 species synonyms, 5466 subspecies (accepted
 names), 1256 subspecies synonyms, 3714 varieties (accepted names), 6768 variety synonyms, 166 forms (accepted