Description
The Webb Herbarium, created by English botanist Philip Barker Webb and donated to the Museum in 1856, represents one of the largest private botanical collections of the time. Specimens come from all over the world, including Australia, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and include historical specimens of every plant and fungal group collected by such legendary figures as Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, and René Louiche Desfontaines. One of the most important sub-collections is that of Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière from Australia and Tasmania (1791-1794). Thanks to the completion of FI-W digitization by Picturae in early November 2024, we know that it contains exactly 276,302 specimens (arranged in 1,584 cubbies, 7,111 folders and 232,527 sheets), including more than 6250 types surveyed today.
Purposes
This is a sub-collection of https://registry.gbif.org/collection/19961847-31f6-4abb-9b92-18a391ba9b0d. Information originally retrieved from internal University of Florence Museal System (UNIFI-SMA) digitization dashboard, compiled in October 2021.
