DiSSCo-ITINERIS Collection

Erbario di Philip Barker Webb | Philip Barker Webb's herbarium

Collection code
FI-W
Alternative Codes
FI999920
Herbarium barcode
Collection Type
Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type
Sample Pressed, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count
276,302
Specimens in GBIF
n/a
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.
Geographic Coverage
World
Taxonomic Coverage
n/a
Temporal Coverage
n/a
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.
Institution Name
Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze | Via Giorgio La Pira headquarter of the Natural History Museum in Florence
Institution Code
Home Page
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Catalog URL
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API URLs
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Contacts
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Location
Address: Via Giorgio La Pira, 4
City: Firenze
Province: [TOSCANA] Firenze (FI)
Postal Code: IT-50121
Country: IT
Accession Status
n/a
Personal Collection
Yes
Active Collection
No
Created
2025-06-30 (08:04:08)
Modified
2025-06-30 (08:04:08)
Datasets included

IR0000032 – ITINERIS, Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System (D.D. n. 130/2022 - CUP B53C22002150006) Funded by EU - Next Generation EU PNRR- Mission 4 “Education and Research” - Component 2: “From research to business” - Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures”
  National Research Council of Italy. All Rights Reserved.

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