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| Producer | Missouri Botanical Garden (United States) |
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| Languages | English, French, Spanish |
| Access | |
| Cost | Open access |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Plant taxonomy |
| Temporal coverage | 1703-present |
| Geospatial coverage | Neotropical realm |
| No. of records | 4.2 million |
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| Website | www |
Tropicos is an onlinebotanicaldatabase containing taxonomic information on plants, mainly from theNeotropical realm (Central, andSouth America). It is maintained by theMissouri Botanical Garden and was established in 1982. The database contains images andtaxonomical andbibliographical data on more than 1.4 million plant names and 4.2 millionherbarium 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.[1]
Tropicos was developed by Garden botanist Dr. Robert Magill in the early 1980s, initially on a tiny Osborne 01 microcomputer. He is currently working as Tropicos’ research staff. In 2002, Tropicos was redesigned by Chuck Miller, CIO, and his team reprogrammed it in C#/.Net over many years into the current website.
Tropicos ID (P960) (seeuses)
