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Specimen Record

CountryBrasil
State/ProvinceMinas Gerais
LocalityFazenda Massambará.
Institution CodeJbrj
Collection CodeRb
Catalog NumberRb00523348
Collected ByP. H. A. Melo; P. L. Viana
Date Collected2002-08-08

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RB - Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Herbarium Collection
http://www.jbrj.gov.br/jabot/

Created over a century ago, the RB currently comprises ca. 750,000 mounted specimens, with a strong representation of Brazilian flora, mainly from the Atlantic and Amazon forests. Nearly 100% of these specimens have been entered into the database and imaged and, at present, about 17% have been geo-referenced. This data paper is focused exclusively on RB's exsiccatae collection of land plants and algae, which is currently increasing by about twenty to thirty thousand specimens per year thanks to fieldwork, exchange and donations. Since 2005, many national and international projects have been implemented, improving the quality and accessibility of the collection. The most important facilitating factor in this process was the creation of the institutional system for plants collection and management, named JABOT. Since the RB is continuously growing, the dataset is updated weekly on SiBBr and GBIF portals. The most represented environments are the Atlantic and Amazon forests, a biodiversity hotspot and the world's largest rain forest, respectively. The dataset described in this article contains the data and metadata of plants and algae specimens in the RB collection and the link to access the respective images. Currently, the RB data is publicly available online at several biodiversity portals, such as our institutional database JABOT, the Reflora Virtual Herbarium, the SiBBr and the GBIF portal. However, a description of the RB dataset as a whole is not available in the literature.

Contacts

Name Rafaela Forzza
RoleCurator
Emailrafaela@jbrj.gov.br
Name Luís Alexandre Silva
RoleCoordenador do Núcleo de Computação Científica e Geoprocessameno
Emailestevao@jbrj.gov.br
Name Eduardo Dalcin
Rolenone
Emailedalcin@jbrj.gov.br
Name Rafaela Forzza
RoleCurator
Emailrafaela@jbrj.gov.br
Name Rafaela Forzza
RoleCurator
Emailrafaela@jbrj.gov.br
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