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The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Herbarium is one of the world’s outstanding research resources for specimens and information on bryophytes and vascular plants. The collection is limited to these two major groups of plants. As of 2018 the collection has nearly 7 million specimens. The Herbarium at MO is divided between two buildings. The Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Monocots and Dicots through the Fabaceae (family 128) are located in the Lehmann Building, at the south end of the Garden grounds, while Dicot families from Pandaceae (family 128A) through Asteraceae (family 280) are in the Bayer Center (4500 Shaw Blvd.). The Lehmann Building Photo: Jack Jennings The Bayer Center Photo: Jack Jennings Visitors should try to arrive at the Garden during normal working hours. On arrival, come to the reception area on the 2nd floor of the Bayer Center (4500 Shaw Blvd., two blocks west of the main Garden entrance) to register with the Herbarium Secretary. A brief orientation will be made to the facilities and collections at that time. If arriving after-hours, please go the main entrance of the Garden at 4344 Shaw Blvd. and contact a Security Officer. The Garden maintains inexpensive accommodations close to the Herbarium and Garden for research visitors. The Garden's guesthouses, Trelease House or Anderson House, have individual apartments that are large, comfortable, completely furnished, with kitchen facilities. The guesthouses are named in honor of William Trelease and Ed...

This is a list of herbaria in North America, organized first by country or region where the herbarium is located, then within each region by size of the collection. All herbarium codes follow the Index Herbarium. Canada [ ] Herbaria in Canada Name No. Specimens Code Province City Website 1,335,000 DAO, DAOM 860,000 TRT, TRTC Herbier Marie-Victorin, 850,000 MT National Herbarium of Canada, 838,000 CAN, CANM Herbier Louis-Marie, 770,000 ULF 560,000 UBC 320,000 ALTA E.C. Smith Herbarium, 200,000 ACAD 188,000 V W.P. Fraser Herbarium, 160,000 SASK 160,000 PMAE Herbier du Québec 153,000 QUE Fowler Herbarium, 142,000 QK 137,000 MTMG Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium, 120,000 NFLD Claude Garton Herbarium, 105,000 LKHD University of Manitoba Herbarium, 90,000 WIN Connell Memorial Herbarium, 67,000 UNB RBG Herbarium, 60,000 HAM University of Lethbridge Herbarium, 21,800 LEA Central America and the Caribbean [ ] The table below lists herbaria located in Herbaria in Central America Name No. Specimens Code Country City Website Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática 400,000 HAC Herbario Paul C. Standley, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana 240,000 EAP Herbario Nacional, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica 215,000 CR Institute of Jamaica 125,000 IJ Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad 110,000 INB Herbario Prof. Dr. J. Bisse, Jardín Botánico Nacional 100,000 HAJB Jardín Botánico Nacional Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso 100,000 JBSD Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad 92,000 BSC Cuba Herbario Luis A. Fournier, ...

Our Mission • To lead the exploration of the diversity of our flora, by expanding and curating the collections, providing quality information, expertise and services to South Africa and the world. The National Herbarium, situated within the Pretoria National Botanical Garden, houses the largest collection of plant specimens in southern Africa with over one million specimens. The National Herbarium • Is a collection of plants which are dried, pressed, mounted on cardboard sheets, and labelled for scientific study. Important information about the plant (place and date of collecting, scientific name, collector’s name, etc.) is included with the herbarium specimen • Is the largest herbarium in Africa and the fourth largest in the southern hemisphere • Boasts of a collection of more than a million plant specimens • Connects to a wide network of herbaria and botanical gardens in South Africa and wider • Is supported by research facilities and research staff • Maintains the largest computerised botanical database, PRECIS, in Africa • Houses the • Has a specimen exchange programme with numerous institutions abroad • Undertakes plant collection as part of the National Plant Collection Programme, with the aim of having a plant collection which represents the flora of the country as accurately as possible What do we do? • Identify and name plants • Collect plants to fill the gaps in distribution data of southern African plants • Study relationships between plants and publish taxonomi...

Many folks seem to be under the mistaken impression that a herbarium is a place where herbs are grown. Herbarium specimen sheet, Sedum. Images by Florida Museum & University of Florida Herbarium Actually, it’s a collection of plant specimens preserved, labeled and stored in an organized manner that facilitates access. You can think of it as a library of dried plant specimens used for both education and research. Typically, the plants are flattened, dried and mounted on uniformly sized, archival paper, but some herbaria also include mosses, algae, fungi or lichens in archival paper packets, seeds, wood sections, pollen, microscope slides, DNA extractions or jars of plant parts preserved in alcohol or glycerin. Herbarium specimens are always accompanied by a label that indicates the location where the plant was growing, the collector and the date collected. Often the label also includes information about the appearance of the plant and the context or habitat where it was found. Each herbarium specimen is assigned a unique accession number, which functions like the catalog number of a book in a library. The practice of collecting dried plants mounted on paper is attributed to the Italian physician and botanist Luca Ghini (1490-1556), and was spread over Europe by his students. At that time, such a collection of dried, mounted plant specimens was known as a hortus siccus (dry garden) or hortus hiemalis (winter garden). The word herbarium was originally used to refer to a book ...

The John T. Waterhouse Herbarium is internationally registered and holds over 61,000 specimens, including vascular plants and fungi, algae, lichens and non-vascular plants. Most of our specimens are Australian, with the majority from New South Wales and a smaller collection from other states and countries. At UNSW, the Herbarium is an important resource for research and teaching. It’s also essential for the identification of plants. Individual specimens may be cited by researchers in their publications as vouchers from which original data has been obtained. This data includes morphological, molecular, chemical, histological, ecological and palynological data. The specimens in the Herbarium also act as records, which map the temporal and spatial distributions of organisms. These records are essential for research into the spread of invasive species and changes in distribution due to urbanisation and climate change. Research at UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences has utilised the John T. Waterhouse Herbarium to cover diverse areas such as: • molecular systematics • mycorrhizal taxonomy • environmental studies • vegetation mapping and management • land management • biogeography • ecology • biodiversity • arid zone studies. The Herbarium collection is available by appointment within business hours for staff, students and external visitors at UNSW. Specimens are also available for loan to other institutions for study. Staff and students can request loans through t...