Tropicos is an online
botanical database
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containing taxonomic information on plants, mainly from the
Neotropical realm (
Central, and
South America
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). It is maintained by the
Missouri Botanical Garden
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million ...
and was established over 25 years ago. The database contains images and
taxonomical and
bibliographical data on more than 4.2 million
herbarium specimens. In addition, it contains data on over 49,000 scientific publications. The database can be queried in English, French, and Spanish. The oldest records in the database go back to 1703.
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Online botany databases
Online taxonomy databases
Missouri Botanical Garden
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