Macaronesian botany and the Endeavour voyage: The collections and records of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander from Madeira

• Arnoldo Santos-Guerra ; Mark A. Carine ^[1] ; Javier Francisco-Ortega ^[2]
  1. [1] Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
  2. [2] International Center for Tropical Botany, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Cuban Research Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
• Localización: Scientia Insularum: Revista de Ciencias Naturales en islas, ISSN-e 2659-6644, Nº. 3, 2020, págs. 165-220
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Botánica macaronésica y el viaje del Endeavour: las colecciones y observaciones de Joseph Banks y Daniel Solander de Madeira
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    botanical history, atlantic islands, plant taxonomy, botanical exploration, enlightenment

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    The efforts of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander to document the vascular plant, bryophyte, fungal, algal, and lichen flora of Madeira during the first circumnavigation of James Cook on Her Majesty’s Bark Endeavour (1768-1771) are documented. Banks’s journal (at the State Library of New South Wales, Australia) provides accounts pertinent to the species observed in this visit and also includes a list of 330 entries that were recorded during their stay in this Portuguese island. Where possible, the species documented in this list were matched with corresponding herbarium collections held in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London, where the herbarium of Joseph Banks is now housed. Comparisons were made with two documents also housed in this Museum, namely: Solander’s unpublished flora of Madeira (Primitiae Florae Maderensis, sive catalogus Plantarum in Insula Madera) and an inventory of specimens that were collected and stored inside drying books during the expedition.