Silva, Janaína Gomes daFilardi, Fabiana Luiza RanzatoBarbosa, Maria Regina de VasconcellosBaumgratz, José Fernando AndradeBicudo, Carlos Eduardo de MattosCavalcanti, Taciana BarbosaCoelho, Marcus Alberto NadruzCosta, Andréa Ferreira daCosta, Denise Pinheiro daDalcin, Eduardo CoutoEvangelista, Paulo Henrique LabiakLima, Haroldo Cavalcante deLohmann, Lúcia GarcezMaia, Leonor CostaMansano, Vidal de FreitasMenezes, MariângelaMorim, Marli PiresMoura, Carlos Wallace do NascimentoLughadha, Eimear NicPeralta, Denilson FernandesPrado, JeffersonRoque, NádiaStehmann, João RenatoSylvestre, Lana da SilvaPereira, Larissa TrierveilerWalter, Bruno Machado TelesSilva, Geraldo Zimbrão daForzza, Rafaela Campostrini2023-09-122023-09-122022SILVA, J. G. da et al. Brazilian Flora 2020: leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network.TAXON, v. 71, p. 178-198, 2022. Disponível em: <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/tax.12640>. Acesso em: 15 mar. 2023.1996-8175http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/jspui/handle/123456789/17430The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impediment and the biodiversity crisis are widely recognized, highlighting the urgent need for reliable taxonomic data. Over the past decade, numerous countries worldwide have devoted considerable effort to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), which called for the preparation of a working list of all known plant species by 2010 and an online world Flora by 2020. Brazil is a megadiverse country, home to more of the world’s known plant species than any other country. Despite that, Flora Brasiliensis, concluded in 1906, was the last comprehensive treatment of the Brazilian flora. The lack of accurate estimates of the number of species of algae, fungi, and plants occurring in Brazil contributes to the prevailing taxonomic impediment and delays progress towards the GSPC targets. Over the past 12 years, a legion of taxonomists motivated to meet Target 1 of the GSPC, worked together to gather and integrate knowledge on the algal, plant, and fungal diversity of Brazil. Overall, a team of about 980 taxonomists joined efforts in a highly collaborative project that used cybertaxonomy to prepare an updated Flora of Brazil, showing the power of scientific collaboration to reach ambitious goals. This paper presents an overview of the Brazilian Flora 2020 and provides taxonomic and spatial updates on the algae, fungi, and plants found in one of the world’s most biodiverse countries. We further identify collection gaps and summarize future goals that extend beyond 2020. Our results show that Brazil is home to 46,975 native species of algae, fungi, and plants, of which 19,669 are endemic to the country. The data compiled to date suggests that the Atlantic Rainforest might be the most diverse Brazilian domain for all plant groups except gymnosperms, which are most diverse in the Amazon. However, scientific knowledge of Brazilian diversity is still unequally distributed, with the Atlantic Rainforest and the Cerrado being the most intensively sampled and studied biomes in the country. In times of “scientific reductionism”, with botanical and mycological sciences suffering pervasive depreciation in recent decades, the first online Flora of Brazil 2020 significantly enhanced the quality and quantity of taxonomic data available for algae, fungi, and plants from Brazil. This project also made all the information freely available online, providing a firm foundation for future research and for the management, conservation, and sustainable use of the Brazilian funga and flora.en-USabertoBig dataBiodiversityNatural history collectionsRepositoriesTaxonomic impedimentArtigo publicado em periodicoThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. Fonte: PDF do artigo.https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12640