Botany
Type and samples
about 2 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%.