Table 1 Estimations of the botanical content of the Theatrum Rerum Naturalium, including empty and illustrated folios.

From: Looking into the flora of Dutch Brazil: botanical identifications of seventeenth century plant illustrations in the Libri Picturati

Theatrum

Unfinished plant content

Illustrated plant content

Total (intended) botanical content*

Folios

206

160

366

Illustrations

0

172

172

Vernaculars/plants

220

176

396

Taxa

205

163

335

Species

197

150

313

Genera

5

8

13

Unidentified taxa

3

5

8

Families

74

68

95

  1. *The sums of taxa, species and families exclude the repeated records in both empty and illustrated folios.
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