Global Plants
2,975,691 Objects in 68 Collections
Archives: Drawings of the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain, by M. Sessé, V. Cervantes & M. Mociño (1787-1803)
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Archives: Drawings of the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain.
Archives: Drawings of the Royal Botanical Expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru, by Hipólito Ruiz & José Pavón (1777-1816)
2,234
The Royal Botanical expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru was an 18th-century Spanish expedition to the territories of the Viceroyalty of Peru, Ecuador, and Chile. Hipólito Ruiz and José Pavón were the two botanists in charge of the expedition. Between 1777 and 1778, Ruiz and Pavón collected 3,000 specimens, produced over 2,200 drawings, and ultimately published 1,900 descriptions and 658 drawings. The materials collected and documented during the expedition identified many new species, a number of which are named for Ruiz and Pavón, and contextualize the expedition and its pharmacological interest in New World plants.
Archives: Engravings for Flora Peruviana et Chilensis by Hipólito Ruiz & José Pavón (1792-1822)
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Archives: Engravings for Flora Peruviana et Chilensis.
Botanical Register
428
The Botanical Register is an illustrated horticultural magazine founded by illustrator Sydenham Edwards. The articles and prints were selected by the Cambridge University Herbarium to represent the Botanical Register span its entirety, from 1816-1847.
Botanische Staatssammlung München Artwork - Water Colours of Fungi by Fritz Wohlfarth
1,907
This collection consists of watercolors of fungi painted by Fritz Wohlfarth (1906–2005). Dr. Fritz Wohlfarth studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) and obtained a Ph.D. degree in chemistry. For many years he worked as a field sales representative for a varnish company in Munich. During his tours around Germany and adjacent countries, he collected fresh plant and fungal material and pursued his passion of painting nature, a major interest that he continued after his retirement in the 1970s. All together, over 1.900 paintings of all groups of macromycetes are included in this collection. Nearly all of the 800 species are …
Botanische Staatssammlung München Artwork - Water Colours of Fungi by Konrad Schieferdecker
1,401
This collection consists of finely drawn watercolors and a few monochrome photos of micro- and macrofungi done by Konrad Schieferdecker (1902–1965). Konrad Schieferdecker studied geodesy at the College of Agriculture in Berlin. In 1925, he got a position as surveyor in Hildesheim (Niedersachsen, Germany). For 40 years, his outstanding personal interest was focused on the study of mycology, botany as well as numismatics and prehistory of the region of Hildesheim. He published a number of scientific contributions on various subjects, including the descriptions of some fungi new to science. In this collection, nearly all of the represented species (875 taxa) …
Collection of Drawings of South African Plants, Holland collection
180
This collection of watercolors and sketches of South African wildflowers were painted by plant collector Maria Elizabeth Holland. Maria Elizabeth Holland was a plant collector in Southern and South Africa in the mid nineteenth century. All of her paintings include scientific identifications.
Cook First Voyage Artwork Collection
2,185
This collection from Cook’s first voyage consists of botanical and zoological illustrations. Cook embarked upon his first expedition aboard the HMS Endeavor from Plymouth Harbor in August 1768. He was joined by the naturalist Joseph Banks (1743–1820) and his civilian entourage.
Cook Second Voyage Artwork Collection
302
This collection from Cook’s Second Voyage consists of sketches by Georg Forster of plants and animals collected throughout the South Seas by his father, Johann Reinhold Forster.
Cuatrecasas Manuscripts
28
This collection consists of letters between José Cuatrecasas and botanical gardens, museums, and researchers regarding his study of the Theobroma genus and specifically Theobroma cacao, or cocoa plants. José Cuatrecasas (1903-1996) was a Spanish botanist widely considered one of the finest explorers of tropical botany. His research focused on the flowering plant families Asteraceae and Malpighiaceae.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, "original illustrations and published plates"
1,270
This collection contains illustrations, mostly paintings and prints, by Anne Barnard, John Curtis, Syndenham Edwards, Walter Hood Fitch, Mathilda Smith, Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer, and William Jackson Hooker. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine has been published on a quarterly basis since 1787, making it the longest-running horticultural journal in the world.
Darwinion Institute Art Collection
2
The Darwinion Institute was founded in 1997 to study vascular plants and biodiversity in Argentina. This collection of artwork contains highly detailed drawings of plants including identifications, providing supplemental reference materials for research.
Darwinion Institute Photography Collection
5
The Darwinion Institute was founded in 1997 to study vascular plants and biodiversity in Argentina. The Darwinion Institute photography collection contains images of identified plants, providing visual context to taxonomic study.
Economic Botany Collection, Kew
216
The Economic Botany collection contains examples of anthropogenically useful parts of plants. These include samples of wood, fruits, bark, seeds, roots, resins, exudates, cones, leaves, bark cloth, fibers, tubers, and oils.
Elenchus Collectionum in Herbario Martii asservatarum
141
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868) was a German botanist who assembled a private collection of botanical specimens from all over the world. His collection included over 300,000 specimens representing 63,000 species, as well as an extensive museum collection. Shortly after his death in 1868, Martius's private herbarium was offered for public sale, and was acquired by the Kingdom of Belgium. Consisting of manuscripts and correspondence, the documents presented here include lists of the key accessions of Martius’s herbarium.
Erich Nelson Orchid Illustrations
965
Erich Nelson was a German artist, designer, and botanist who specialized in European orchids. His precise and detailed illustrations document characteristics of orchids to such a level of detail as to illustrate the variation within a single species of orchid, which has contributed to an understanding of orchid speciation. During his lifetime Nelson published numerous volumes of his illustrations. The Erich Nelson orchid illustrations were contributed to Global Plants by the University of Bern Institute of Plant Sciences and Botanical Garden in coordination with the Nelson Foundation.
Field Books
87
This collection contains maps from Mozambique, transcriptions of specimen collection logs, and manuscripts containing field notes and observations from expeditions to Angola, Cape Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé & Príncipe.
Flora Capensis
17,569
The Flora Capensis was started in 1860 at the suggestion of Sir William Hooker and was included in his 1863 memorandum for his Botanical Survey of the Empire (which was reprinted in the Kew Bulletin, 1905, pp. 18-22). Ultimately a collaboration between William Henry Harvey and Otto Wilhelm Sonder, Flora Capensis documents and describes the flora of colonial South Africa. The first three volumes were published between 1860 and 1865. The final supplement was issued in 1933.
Flora Somalia
4,625
Flora of Somalia consists of four volumes documenting all known vascular plants in the region.
Flora Zambesiaca
10,373
Flora Zambesiaca was started by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1960 and is still in progress today. Containing over 27,000 plant names, it geographically spans Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.
Flora of Mosaic Mountain Veld South of Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa
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Photographs of the Flora of Mosaic Mountain Veld South of Worcester The Flora of Mosaic Mountain Veld South of Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa contains photographs of plants growing in the mountains and intermontane valleys south of Worcester. The photographs form part of a continuing long term phytosociological study that Anso le Roux started in 2000. With a number of 1042 different plant species recorded in this part of the Worcester-Robertson Karoo thus far, the area has high species richness. These plant species are grouped into 324 genera and 79 families. Similar to the floras of other semi-arid to arid …
Flora of North America
14,507
Flora of North America contains information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants, both native and naturalized, found in North America north of Mexico. Flora of North America began formally in 1965, though it builds upon research and information accumulated over two centuries of botanical study.
Flora of Southern Africa
4,001
Flora of Southern Africa was published by the South African Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in 2003.
Flora of Tropical Africa
13,328
Flora of Tropical Africa was originally published in 1868 by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was completed in 1933 and contains more than 13,000 species.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
10,111
Flora of East Tropical Africa is the largest regional tropical flora ever created. Documenting all known wild plants from Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya, the project received contributions from many botanists. Work began in the 1940s and was completed in 2012. Containing over 12,000 entries, it documents between 3 and 4 percent of known plant species in the world.