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The remarkable plant diversity that characterizes the Euro-Mediterranean region has been for long the focus of intense scientific interest. Since the data produced daily accumulate at tremendous rates, there emerges the task of organizing them into flexible and widely accessible tools for ongoing research. PhytoKaryon was conceived and built as a database that would contain all available karyological data on plants of the Euro-Mediterranean region. It currently includes more than 45,000 records, based on over 1,200 bibliographical references and relating to about 11,000 plant taxa. This wealth of electronically organized karyological data allows for relevant comparisons among different plant groups and the countries, as here demonstrated by examples of data mining.