FLORON IPT

Occurrence data from outside the Netherlands published in Dutch botanical journals - Version 1.1

sparrius@floron.nl (Laurens Sparrius) — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:13:00 +0200

While digitizing Dutch botanical journals, some records outside the Netherlands were digitized. These were kept separate and are now published in this occurrence dataset.

Flora Batava (1800-1934): From Historical Citizen Science to Plant Humanities Dataset - Version 1.1

sparrius@floron.nl (Laurens Sparrius) — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:08:20 +0200

Flora Batava: people, plants, locations lists 11,500+ records of all species in the first illustrated flora of the Netherlands, published in 28 volumes between 1800 and 1934. The dataset includes information about the plants, the people who observed them in each locality, and the publication of each volume. KB, the National Library of the Netherlands holds both original and digitized source material. From the latter, data was segmented and extracted using a generative AI model (OpenAI’s GPT-4), then checked and corrected manually. Including social (e.g., observers’ names, sex) and historical information (e.g., old plant names, publication history), this dataset facilitates research in plant humanities, botanical heritage, and social history of science.

Floristic literature of the Netherlands - Version 1.7

sparrius@floron.nl (Laurens Sparrius) — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:57:46 +0200

Floristic literature sources published in the Netherlands have been screened for observation data of plant, mushrooms, mosses and lichens. Any observations of sufficient quality have been digitized.

Floristic collections of the Netherlands - Version 1.5

sparrius@floron.nl (Laurens Sparrius) — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:54:53 +0200

Floristic literature sources published in the Netherlands have been screened for observation data of plants, mushrooms, mosses and lichens. Any observations of sufficient quality have been digitized.

FLORIVON - Version 11.10

sparrius@floron.nl (Laurens Sparrius) — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:26:11 +0200

Observations of vascular plants by botanists between 1902 and 1950 and a small number of published records and specimen data. Data have been collected in 1.3 x 1.01 km grid squares. The entire country of the Netherlands was surveyed.