Botany
Type and samples
about 5 million samples in the Florentine herbaria
about 20 thousand digitized references
“References” are the samples on which a plant species is described for the first time. The “reference” specimens are digitized and made available online to the scientific community. Digitized references come from: Asia 38% - Europe 22% - Africa 16% - Americas 12% - Oceania 11%.