An Atlas of the World’s Conifers

Making use of what is undoubtedly the most comprehensive herbarium specimen database on conifers, compiled in the BRAHMS software (Univ. Oxford), mapping using specimen data points will produce an Atlas of the World’s Conifers, the first ever produced using this type of data.

Podocarpus elatus seed cone & Distribution map of the genus Podocarpus (Image: Aljos Farjon, RBG Kew)

The Atlas Project is still ongoing, in collaboration with Denis Filer (BRAHMS) at the University of Oxford. The database currently holds 29,000 records of conifer herbarium collections, 90% of which are geo-referenced to degrees and minutes, producing dot maps for every species and infraspecific taxa.