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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 30 years are publicly available here. This system has nearly 1.3 million scientific names and over 4.4 million specimen records.

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Names1,338,741
Specimens4,696,026
Images669,200
Publications52,515
References150,295
Common Names69,713
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