Achievements

We expect that over the next three years, we will succeed in repatriating herbarium data and type images amounting to 50% of the Northeastern Brazilian collections found at Kew. The species chosen will reflect our Brazilian partners’ conservation priorities, but will also need to match areas of expertise within Kew. Families included in the present phase of the programme are the economically and ecologically important Compositae (the daisy family), already on line, and Leguminosae (the pea family), both having a significant amount of high quality data deposited at the Kew Herbarium.

The figure shows a projection of the amount of work already achieved by databasing 9 plant families.