ZEFOD is an information system concerned with botanical and zoological collections in Germany. Besides an overview of the institutions holding collections, ZEFOD also contains general information about each of the collections as well as information about the institution (address, contact data) and general information about the collection (name, description, geographic and taxonomic points of emphasis, scientific advisor). ... [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
About 90 specimens are found in the herbarium of the Botanical Museum that believed to have once been part of the herbarium of Linné the elder or annotated by him. Eighty-two of them have been published by Ilkka Kukkonen and Kalevi Viljamaa in 1973. Images of the published specimens including photographs of the handwritten information are given together with the published explanatory texts from Kukkonen & Viljamaa (1973). ... [Information of the supplier]
The Herbarium Haussknecht (JE) is located at the Main University Building. It is the largest herbarium in Germany and houses, besides the plant specimen collections, a major botanical library and archives. The Herbarium Haussknecht houses ca. 3 million plant specimens of all systematic groups worldwide. Main focus of the collections is Thuringia (Germany), southwestern Asia, Cuba, and southeastern Europe. In the Herbarium Haussknecht herbarium material and other conserved plant material is stored, prepared, and loaned for taxonomic, plant geographical, and historical studies, students are trained, and scientific studies are conducted (flora of Thuringia, systematics of Baccharis (Asteraceae) and Festuca (Poaceae), flora of Cuba). ... [Information of the supplier]
Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798) and his son Georg (1754-1794) were naturalists who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage around the world (1772-1775). In addition to animals and ethnological objects they collected a large herbarium. They were assisted by the Swedish botanist Anders Sparrmann, who joined them at the Cape of Good Hope. Already during the voyage descriptions and drawings were prepared and the new genera were published only a few months after their return in 'Characteres generum plantarum' (1775/76). Several sets of plants were given to botanists, either in gratitude for their help in identification, as a gift, or in exchange. The rest of Georg Forster's herbarium was sold in an auction in 1797/98 and bought by Aylmer Bourke Lambert, while William Roscoe aquired the herbarium of Johann Reinhold Forster in 1799 (plants now for the greater part at K, the remaining at LIV). Thus, plants of Forster can nowadays be found in at least 18 herbaria. The set at Göttingen seems to have been given to the university during a visit by Georg Forster in the year 1787 or at the beginning of 1788, after his return from Vilnius (Wilna) and before he went to Mayence (Mainz) as a librarian. The set was first included in the Academic Museum (Pütter mentions it as recently acquired in the second volume of his 'History of the University' 1788) and it later came to the Botanic Garden and was finally placed in the General Herbarium. The importance of the herbarium was recognized, and in 1968 F.-G. Schroeder separated it from the main herbarium; since then it is kept separately and has been studied by many visitors, notably by the late Ray Fosberg in 1986. ... [Information of the supplier]
Die Seite des Ginkgo Museums Weimar dreht sich rund um das lebende Fossil Ginkgo biloba, den Ginkgo-Baum. Man erfährt nützliches über seine Kultivierung und Zucht, über die möglichen (Heil-) Wirkungen und Anwendungen der Pflanze und kann selbst Ginkgo- Samen zur Zucht erwerben, die dazu gehörigen Informationen und Experten-Tipps gibt es hier ebenfalls. ... [Redaktion vifabio]
Botany is the scientific study of plants and fungi. Scientists in the Department of Botany at The Field Museum are interested in learning why there are so many different plants and fungi in the world, how this diversity is distributed across the globe and how best to classify it, and what important roles these organisms play in the environment and in human cultures. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Herbarium of Vascular Plants of the Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) is one of the largest collection in the World and main herbarium in Russia. The Herbarium numbers more than 6.000.000 specimens from over the World. Collections from LE are playing an important role as a basic source of data for investigating of plant resources, especially their taxonomy, distribution, phylogeny, morphology, molecular biology, conservation and economic importance. Virtual Guide to the main collections of the LE Herbarium has been created in 2005-2006 with kind support of the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF). ... [Information of the supplier]
The foundation of this collection of dried plant specimens dates back to the year 1879 when the then Director of the Botanical Museum, Anton KERNER von MARILAUN (1831 - 1898), had begun to acquire herbarium material for the installation of an institute's new herbarium (WU). This had become necessary, as the entire collection had been transferred to the newly built Natural History Museum Vienna (W). To accelerate the installation, KERNER had created the well-known exsiccata series "Flora exsiccata Austro-Hungarica" (duplicates still available for exchange!) with very instructive labels which had been issued also in book form (Schedae ad floram exsiccatam Austro-Hungaricam). The new herbarium grew rapidly and in 1889 it contained already 80.000 specimens. Due to gifts and bequests (e.g., herbaria of A. KERNER: integrated in the main herbarium, K. KECK: still kept as separate entity) as well as by the activities of collecting expeditions it soon approached considerable size and importance. KERNER was followed as the institute's director by Richard von WETTSTEIN who also has left his herbarium to the institute. Today the herbarium of the Institute of Botany is estimated to contain about 1,400.000 specimens covering all plant groups worldwide. Further details can be found in the printed version of the Index Herbariorum ed. 8 (HOLMGREN & al., 1990) and at the website. ... [Information of the supplier]
This site seeks to facilitate access to samples of the handwriting of important botanical collectors. Although handwriting is often a key component in deciphering the identity of historical specimens and determining type material, researchers frequently find limited access to handwriting samples. Handwriting samples of some collectors have been published over the years, but are scattered over a number of journals and not immediately accessible to all. Travel to important historical collections in various herbaria is also frequently only available to a limited number of researchers. Thus, we sought to develop a central resource for the dissemination of handwriting documentation that was more freely accessible to researchers around the world. ... [Information of the supplier]
Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH) is an online resource that provides immediate access to the wealth of plant specimen data held by Australian herbaria. AVH is a collaborative project of the Commonwealth, state and territory herbaria, under the auspices of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH). Herbarium specimens are accompanied by information on where and when they were collected, by whom, their current identification, and information on habitat and associated species. So far, over 80 per cent of the specimens housed in Australian herbaria have been databased. This data forms a valuable resource for a wide range of stakeholders. The combined specimen data from each herbarium's collection provides the most complete picture of the distribution of Australia's flora to date. AVH is a dynamic resource. New specimen records are added as herbaria continue to database their ever-growing collections, and existing records are updated to reflect name changes and data validation work. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]