Botanical collecting of the cerrado started a little under 200 years ago with the visit of the European naturalists Karl Friedrich Philip von Martius, Johann Emanuel Pohl and Johann Baptist von Spix in 1817. Click on their and the other historical collectors’ names below to find out more about their contributions to Central Brazilian botany:
Augustin Françoise Cesar Provençal de Saint-Hilaire (1799 – 1853)