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Tropicos® was originally created for internal research but has since been made available to the world’s scientific community. All of the nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data accumulated in MBG’s electronic databases during the past 25 years are publicly available here. This system has over 1.2 million scientific names and 4.0 million specimen records.
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Names
1,257,349
Specimens
4,010,433
Images
171,344
Publications
47,810
References
123,989
Common Names
55,570
This map shows the density of Tropicos specimen records that have coordinates. Click the image to see a larger version and to explore specimens at particular degree square.
This map shows the country distribution of Tropicos specimen records that have country specified. Click the image to see a larger version and to view counts per country.
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