The data in this article provide information about the species richness of each political unit in Myanmar and their preliminary conservation status. The dataset was compiled by gathering scattered data from different sources. The majority of the data were compiled from the authors' collections and historical and recent floristic treatments. Online databases and herbarium specimens were additional resources used for data compilation. In total, 603 species were documented and species names were standardized in accordance with the International Plant Names Index and Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group. Species composition between political units was calculated using the minimum variance of the Jaccard's dissimilarity matrix. Conservation status for 558 pteridophyte species from Myanmar was evaluated based on the global occurrences and occurrences only in Myanmar, and species with less than three occurrences were excluded from the analysis. This dataset can be applied as the reference data for future taxonomic revisions, biodiversity assessments, and conservation planning. Moreover, the data can be used for global diversity assessment, broad-scale species distribution modeling and bioclimatic modeling. The data provided in this manuscript have been analyzed and discussed in Khine and Schneider [1].
Keywords: Conservation status; Ferns and lycophytes; Myanmar; Political unit; Pteridophytes; Species diversity; Species list.
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