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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 25 years are publicly available here. This system has over 1.2 million scientific names and 4.0 million specimen records.

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Names1,257,362
Specimens4,010,764
Images171,411
Publications47,812
References124,003
Common Names55,577
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