The Reflora Project is considered a turning point, marking an evolution from a time when research largely depended on visits to numerous European and American herbaria, where samples of our flora, dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, are stored. Today, thanks to the Reflora virtual herbarium, these samples can be accessed online, with a simple click, in high resolution.
In the video, Rafaela Forzza, a researcher at the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, shares the incentives that led to the project's inception and how the initiative was able to digitize 3 million samples, contributing to the repatriation of Brazilian flora.
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