Overall specimens: 7,783,635
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 2,810
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: 2810
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Echinodermata
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Pressed, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 264
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: Herbarium of Count Luigi Guglielmo de Cambray-Digny. Bound. Organised according to the Linnean system, possibly to be linked to the herbarium "FI-A06" in terms of age and layout.
Geographic Coverage: Europe
Taxonomic Coverage: Tracheophyta
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Pressed, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 200
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: Anonymous travel herbarium. Bound with red velvet cover. Plants of Italy and Europe. Contents: ca 200 specimens, including 15 pteridophytes, 5 gymnosperms and 180 angiosperms.
Geographic Coverage: Europe
Taxonomic Coverage: Tracheophyta
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Pressed, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 139
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: Anonymous herbarium dating from the 1880s. The recent annotation “S. C.” was, indeed, an indication for “sine collectore,” but calligraphy, age and arrangement suggest that it was compiled, like another, autographed, by Louis William de Cambray-Digny. Angiosperm specimens only.
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: Tracheophyta
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Pressed, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 767
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: Sample Fluid Preserved, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 50,000
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Arthropoda
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: Sample Pinned
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: Abbazzi, Piero (1928 - 2020).
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: Insecta
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: Sample Pressed, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: 11
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: Bretagne
Taxonomic Coverage: Phaeophyceae
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Fluid Preserved, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 2,800,000
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: A number of several historical sub-collections has been embedded here, together with the most recent gatherings, by mainly keeping an organizational distinction among marine and continental mollusks. The most important collectors are Vittorio Pecchioli, Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti, Anselmo Tommasi, Vittorio Uzielli, Marianna Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona Paulucci, Giovanni Caramagna and Simone Cianfanelli; other important contribution are those from Soderi Annovazzi collection and those got thanks to research initiatives such as Miss. Biol., GRSTS, ISTIP and others.
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Mollusca
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Fluid Preserved
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Annelida
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Slide Mount
Specimen count: 383
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: Mostly Antonio Ercolini's specimens.
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Fluid Preserved, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 11,906
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: The collection includes different phyla, from the primitive Platyhelminthes to the Anellida and Tunicata. Important helminthologists, such as Iginio Sciacchitano, Pietro Marchi, Giuseppe Colosi and Antonio Ercolini, contributed to the creation of these collections. The Anellida collection includes a good representation of marine polychaetes, leeches and worms, above all Italian and East African. Unfortunately, part of the historical material has deteriorated or was destroyed in the first half of the twentieth century; however, there is still material from the Andreini, Sciacchitano and Scortecci collections. Other specimens have come from recent research missions conducted by the museum and the CSFET in Somalia. Specimens of the Sipuncula and Echiura deriving in small part from the old collections curated by Targioni Tozzetti in the second half of the nineteenth century and in large part from recent collecting in Somalia during research campaigns conducted by the museum and the CSFET. Numerous specimens of parasitic worms have come from livestock slaughtered in the abattoirs around the end of the nineteenth century, while many other specimens are of human origin. For example, there is a small collection of pork tapeworms (Taenia solium).
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Fluid Preserved, Sample Embedded, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 50,000
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: The collection includes specimens from the orders Acarina, Amblypygi, Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones, Scorpiones and Solifugae. Most of the specimens belong to the order Araneae. The cataloging of specimens is partial. Published catalogs: Vanni & al. 1988 (in Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie, Serie B 94: 373-377) and Berdondini & Whitman 2002 (in Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie, Serie B 109: 119-156).
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Arachnida
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: n/a
Specimen count: 22,436
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: The oldest specimens in the collection were inherited from the Medici and Habsburg-Lorraine families. One example is the large Indian elephant (Elephas maximus) which, according to Targioni Tozzetti, was displayed alive in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the mid-seventeenth century. The skeleton has survived and is now displayed at the centre of the large "Hall of Skeletons". Another curious presence in the museum is that of the naturalized specimen of a hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius): according to some researchers, it lived in the Boboli Gardens at the time of Grand Duke Peter Leopold around the second half of the 1700s. Among the many specimens whose importance is not only scientific but also historical, we can mention some New World monkeys donated by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany Maria Antonia of Bourbon in 1845. After the opening of the museum to the public in 1775, new specimens continued to be added to the Lorraine collection and the greatest increases occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century and around the middle of the twentieth century. They were the years of the great exploratory expeditions in Africa, but also in South America and Asia. The most famous people associated with these enterprises, and those involved in the collection and conservation of the specimens, were: King Victor Emmanuel II, who donated some individuals that had died in Florence's Royal Zoological Garden in the period 1863-71; Marquis Orazio Antinori, who collected in Ethiopia for the Italian Geographical Society in 1880; Count Giacomo Savorgnan di Brazzà, who collected in French Congo and Belgian Congo (presently the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1884; Dr. Leopoldo Traversi, who donated specimens captured in Ethiopia in 1887; Cavalier Leonardo Fea, who collected specimens in Burma in 1887-88; Prof. Nello Beccari, who led an expedition in British Guiana in 1931-32; Victor Emmanuel Duke of Savoy and Aosta, Count of Turin, who willed to the museum a rich collection of specimens of diverse provenience; Dr. Ugo Funaioli, who collected numerous specimens in Tanzania around 1950. Also important were the expeditions of the University of Florence and the CSFET in East Africa, which began in 1959 and ended abruptly in 1987 on account of the war and civil disorder that still torment Somalia. Today the collection is particularly rich in Italian specimens, especially small mammals from all Italian regions. They belonging to order Soricomorpha, Chiroptera and Rodentia, and are preserved in alcohol and dry, which are studied by numerous Italian and foreign specialists. Another important contribution to the growth of the mammal collection was the establishment of the Cetacean Research Centre, starting in 1986: it has operated a network for the reporting and recovery of cetaceans stranded on the Italian coast. The collection includes 46 types. Mammals that were part of the Central Collection of Italian Vertebrates (Giglioli Collection) are incorporated in the mammal collection.
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Mammalia
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Skeletonized, Sample Fluid Preserved, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 40,400
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: The herpetological collection includes species from all over the world. Early specimens, mainly turtles' shells, date from the eighteenth century and are no longer found in the museum. In 2014 the collection included about 40400 reptiles; it mostly increased at the end of 1800, due to Enrico Hillyer Giglioli's work, and in the second part of the twentieth century, as a result of the studies of Bendetto Lanza and his colleagues. The Italian component represents the most significant portion in the collection of reptiles. In particular, the Florentine museum has the largest collection of specimens deriving from virtually all the Italian and Corsican islands and islets. The collection is also very valuable on account of the huge number of specimens from missions in Somalia throughout the twentieth century.
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Crocodylia, Sphenodontia, Squamata, Testudines
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Storage Indoors, Sample Fluid Preserved, Sample Skeletonized
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: The collection includes species from all over the world. In 2014 the collection included about 26500 amphibians; it mostly increased at the end of 1800, due to Enrico Hillyer Giglioli's work, and in the second part of the twentieth century, as a result of the studies of Bendetto Lanza and his colleagues. The largest part of the amphibian collection consists of Italian specimens, with rich series of individuals of the same species, but deriving from different localities, important for the study of the species distribution and variability. However, frogs and toads from other regions of the world are also well represented, with taxa belonging to almost all the existing families.
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Amphibia
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Tanned, Sample Skeletonized, Sample Fluid Preserved, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 20,000
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: The museum's ornithological collection is one of the most important in Italy and in Europe, with representatives of all the orders and almost all the families. Many specimens are mounted on pedestals, but most consist of "study skins". Until a few decades ago, the number of naturalized birds was much higher but the space necessary to house them without damage to the plumage was not sufficient; hence, museum staff began the work of dismounting them from the pedestals and trasforming them into study skins. Some of the birds in the collection date to the end of the eighteenth century. In addition to being an interesting historical datum, this information is very important as documentation of the species known at that time and as indication of the ancient preservation techniques.
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Aves
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Pinned
Specimen count: 15,213
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: One of the most important historical collections of the museum is undoubtedly the Camillo Rondani's (1808-1879) collection of dipterans and hymenopterans. His collection has enormous scientific importance, since it includes the "type specimens" from which he named new species. The collection was purchased by the Museum in 1880 for 4,000 lire. It is stored in the original wooden boxes and is kept separate from the general collection. It includes mainly dipterans.
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: Diptera, Hymenoptera
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Pinned
Specimen count: 99,948
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: The butterfly collection of Roger Verity (1883-1959) is of particular historical and scientific importance. His collection was obtained by personal collecting, exchanges with other collectors and the purchase of specimens or whole collections, for istance the Ubaldo Rocci's (1885-1943) collection. The Verity collection is undoubtedly one of the most important butterfly collections in Italy.
Geographic Coverage: World, Mainly The Palearctic (Italy, France, Spain, England, Asia Minor, North and East Africa, Central Asia, North America)
Taxonomic Coverage: Lepidoptera
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: n/a
Specimen count: 900,000
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: The general entomological collection consists of all specimens not included in the entomological collections that have been separately cataloged for historical or scientific distinctiveness.
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Insecta
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Fluid Preserved, Sample Skeletonized, Storage Indoors, Sample Dried
Specimen count: 38,000
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: The museum's ichthyological collection includes nea 40,000 specimens, mostly preserved in ethanol; only a few specimens are dry preparations, while others are only represented by some skeletal structures (e.g. the jaws of some shark species). The most important nucleus of the collection consists of specimens already forming part of the "Central collection of Italian Vertebrates" established by Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (1845-1909). The italian material dating to the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century is scientifically very important, since it provides a detailed view of the Tuscan and Italian fish fauna before the massive introduction of alien species starting in the first decades of the 1900s. Other important parts of the ichthyological collection are the material collected by Captain Gaetano Chierchia (1850-1922), purchased in 1910 and mainly including marine species from tropical and subtropical Asia and South America, and the material resulting from the numerous scientific missions in Somalia carried out until relatively recent times by museum personnel together with researchers from the Institute of Zoology of the University and the Centre for the Study of tropical Faunas and Ecology of the Italian national Research Council (CNR). Also important are the many type specimens: they represent 42 taxa (41 actinopterygians and 1 elasmobranch), more than half of which are still considered valid. Many specimens are noteworthy on account of their rarity and their morphological, biological or historical peculiarity. The collection contains numerous interesting specimens of Italian abyssal fishes, many of them collected by Enrico Hillyer Giglioli.
Geographic Coverage: World
Taxonomic Coverage: Chondrichthyes, Myxini, Osteichthyes, Petromyzonti
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: Sample Dried, Sample Pressed, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 9,400
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: Included here is everything that was not part of the arrangement work carried out by the Targioni-Tozzetti family, nor however arranged to represent something distinct from Micheli's collection in the strict sense (thus excluding material that belonged to Micheli but was presumably already treated as separate collections at the time, either by the same author or by others). Contents: approx. 9,400 specimens. These include 1,219 lichens in 7 volumes, 1,062 algae in 3 volumes, 978 bryophytes in two volumes, and 213 additional mixed specimens of fungi, lichens and algae in 2 volumes. In addition, there are approx. 300 pteridophytes, 2,300 gymnosperms and 4,700 angiosperms still just leaning on unbleached paper sheets, distributed among a number of boxes.
Geographic Coverage: Europe
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Dried, Sample Pressed, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 21,727
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: Micheli-Targioni Tozzetti herbarium (17th-18th century). The herbarium of Pier Antonio Micheli is of particular scientific importance as it is of pre-Linnaean origin and contains numerous original materials cited by Linnaeus himself. Only after the Targioni-Tozzetti's (Giovanni's and Ottaviano's) specimens were added, the herbarium was reorganised according to Linnaeus' classification and arranged in the 260 elegant cardboard containers that still exist today. Contents: 18366 vascular plant specimens, of which 17848 angiosperms, 88 gymnosperms and 430 pteridophytes. A complete census and complete transcription of the labels of the specimens in the Micheli-Targioni herbarium was carried out in the early 2000s and the data collected was put together in a word file, with a series of complex notations that made it difficult, even at the date of the first drafting of the SMA dashboard (2021), to transfer it to DB format, but which nevertheless allowed a rapid computer search of the specimens. In 2022, the data were transferred in indexed form to excel for migration to a new CMS.
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: Tracheophyta
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Pressed, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 42
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: Anonymous herbarium (18th century?). Contents: 39 specimens of angiosperms.
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: Tracheophyta
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: Images, Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Pressed, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Specimen count: 1,700,000
Specimens in GBIF: 101
Description: The General Herbarium, until 2024 indicated as synonymous with the Italian Central Herbarium (Herbarium Centrale Italicum, HCI) is the largest Italian herbarium, among the most important in Europe and in the world in terms of size and historical value. Typical specimens (holo-, lecto-, neo-types and other original material) surveyed to date number about 20,000. It was founded by the Sicilian naturalist and botanist Filippo Parlatore, who was called to its direction in 1842 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II of Lorraine. Since then, the Herbarium has grown steadily: it is a so-called ‘open’ herbarium, with continuous acquisitions of plant specimens. The collection has been traditionally divided between seeded plants (‘phanerogams’: angiosperms and gymnosperms) and other organisms without flowers and seeds (‘cryptogams’: pteridophytes, bryophytes, algae, fungi, lichens etc.), with an additional open collection devoted to galls. At the time of the last census (Athenaeum Museum System dashboard compiled as part of the DiSSCo Prepare project in October 2021), in line with previously published assessments, cryptogamic collections were still estimated at approx. 800,000 specimens (sorted according to different classification criteria between the different taxonomic groups): 24,500 fungi (sensu lato), 32,000 lichens, 21,600 algae, 680,000 bryophytes an 65,000 pteridophytes. The phanerogamic collections were still estimated at approx. 3,800,000 specimens (sorted according to three successive classification levels: genera in systematic order according to Thophile Durand' "Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum" - 1888 -, species and other infraspecific taxa in alphabetical order, specimens referring to the same taxon in geographical order): 25,000 gymnosperms and ca. 3,800,000 angiosperms, as well as 1,500 samples of galls. However, following the launch of a large, massive digitisation project in February 2024, financed by the National Biodiversity Future Centre (NBFC) and promoted by the University of Padua, counts calibrated to the actual progression of the work soon revealed that previous estimates were excessive and the actual number of Florentine collections (pending final verification) may not exceed 2,000,000 in total. There are thousands of different sources and collectors represented in the herbarium; the main collections can be referred to the authors indicated in the dedocated field. In addition to the ordered collections, there is a large storage room, named after Alfred Chabert, which houses both duplicate materials that are being released and materials (thousands of specimens) awaiting musealisation and integration. There is also a small so-called ‘didactic’ herbarium, created towards the end of the 1980s at the suggestion of Prof. Guido Moggi, never conceived as a stable collection really distinct from the central Herbarium but only as a practical tool for comparison: a sub-collection consisting of a few specimens, extracted from the main series and replaceable at any time, placed in a separate space in order to be more easily manageable and updatable according to nomenclature updates. This selection remained incomplete for a long time after the selection of the first 700 specimens (approx.), corresponding to no more than 10% of our flora, which was in fact never used for the purpose for which it had been set up. The possibility of recovering and completing it has been under consideration again since March 2023, with the start of the research projects for the NBFC, which include the massive genotyping of the Italian flora (DNA barcoding) performed by Milano Bicocca University. Within this framework, this selection of revised specimens of average recent origin can take on a role as a collection of molecular vouchers, as well as a reference for morphological investigation.
Geographic Coverage: Worldwide
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: n/a
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: n/a
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: n/a
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: Sample Dried
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: 6
Description: About 1.5 million specimens of Insects
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: Animals
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: n/a
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: n/a
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: n/a
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-SPE)
Collection Type: Preserved Organisms
Preservation Type: n/a
Specimen count: 2,000,000
Specimens in GBIF: 2
Description: n/a
Geographic Coverage: Worldwide, Especially Italy and Mediterranean area
Taxonomic Coverage: All groups
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)
Collection Type: n/a
Preservation Type: Sample Dried
Specimen count: n/a
Specimens in GBIF: n/a
Description: At present [2015] the collection includes c. 3500 herbarium specimens from the region of Tuscany (Italy), especially the southern parts (Maremma), representing over 1500 species. The specimens were collected mostly by the owner (Federico Selvi, professor of Botany at the University of Firenze) between 1994 and 2015. Every year new specimens are added to the collection. A complete list of specimens is available, as well as the scanned images of the sheets in .jpg format. These are still not available on line, but hopefully will be soon.
Geographic Coverage: n/a
Taxonomic Coverage: n/a
Institution: Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze (MSNF-GLP)