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ANTARCTIC PLANT DATABASE

The Antarctic Plant Database is a database of the plant collections held in the British Antarctic Survey's herbarium (international code AAS). This contains over 40 000 plant specimens from Antarctic , the sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents (especially Fuegia and Patagonia). Over 2000 species are represented, comprising predominantly mosses, liverworts and lichens with smaller collections of vascular plants, macro-algae and macro-fungi.

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Source https://www.gbif.org/dataset/82d9ff5c-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
Last Updated April 10, 2022, 09:01 (UTC)
Created January 13, 2022, 01:57 (UTC)
Country UK
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