Dataset of plant species from Nigeria deposited in NCBI GenBank: Accession numbers, taxonomic classification, and submission metadata

The dataset is provided as a single Microsoft Excel workbook (Nigeria_Plants_in_GenBank.xlsx) containing 22,246 rows, each representing one nucleotide sequence record. Variables include: Accession Number, Deposition Date, Name of Author, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, and Country.