Thursday, May 11, 2006

Flora Brasiliensis










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"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 of Brazilian angiosperms, held in 15 volumes, divided in 40 parts, with a total of 10.367 pages."
In both english and portuguese, Flora Brasiliensis is a wonderful website with a powerful flash zoom or up to 10 pages at a time can be downloaded as pdf files. [via MetaFilter]

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