From just a few to the most type-rich herbarium for Veronica L. (Plantaginaceae) - The effect of digitization of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle herbarium in Paris

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Albach, Dirk C. (2025): From just a few to the most type-rich herbarium for Veronica L. (Plantaginaceae) - The effect of digitization of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle herbarium in Paris. Adansonia (3) 47 (7): 47-130, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2025v47a7, URL: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/adansonia2025v47a7.pdf ABSTRACT Digitization of herbaria has revolutionized taxonomy, bringing type specimens dispersed globally to within a mouse-click of the researcher.

Still, it requires in-depth taxonomic knowledge to identify the specimens as type and often determination on the species level is difficult or impossible due to the limitations of the resolution of photos online. The digitization of the herbarium Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris (P) has brought some of the oldest and type-rich collections of plants online. After investigation and redetermination of the about 16000 specimens of Veronica L. in P, I checked the type status of these.