The digital facilities of the second edition of Pignatti’s “Flora d’Italia”
are presented. A software, called FID (i.e. “Flora Italiana Digitale”) will link
together a random-access interactive identification tool, a thesaurus, synoptic
tables and one template for each single species, including a distribution map
(referred to the Italian regions), “ecograms”, a text-box and up to 24 highresolution
colour images. The FID follows a “shareware phylosophy”. All
contents and images can be integrated and/or replaced over time, in order
to continuously improve the diagnostic and qualitative performance of the
provided utilities. Ideally, the community of users should interact on the web,
so that every user could easily become content provider.
