Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

Flora brasiliensis - The Project

Project Website

http://florabrasiliensis.cria.org.br

Project Description

The projects' aim is to develop an on-line information system about Brazil's flora, using Martius' Flora brasiliensis with high resolution digitized images of the plates as a base. Missouri Botanical Garden is responsible for digitizing all plates. Researchers from the The Department of Botany of the Biology Institute of Unicamp are responsible for organizing the scientific community to produce a validated checklist of names. CRIA is responsible for the development of the system.

Flora brasiliensis was published between 1840 and 1906 by the editors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler, and Ignatz Urban, with the participation of 65 specialists from various countries. It contains taxonomic treatments of 22.767 species, mostly Brazilian angiosperms, held in 15 volumes, divided in 40 parts, with a total of 10.367 pages.

Contact

Sidnei de Souza
Software Developer
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental, CRIA

Project Type

Data Provider

Project Language

English

Key Inputs

Flora brasiliensis (publication published between 1840 and 1906). Sponsorship from Natura, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo ,Fundação Vitae

Key Infrastructure

Web site, publication

Key Technologies

Unknown

Key Processes

Digitisation of the original publication

Geographic Scope

National - Brazil

Taxonomic Scope

Kingdom - Plantae (plants)

Comments

Also delivered on-line in Portugese

Record Status

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