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About our Herbarium

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Herbarium
·  Main collectors represented
·  Included Herbaria
·  Exchange
·  Remarks

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Herbarium, Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics,
The Harborne Building, The University of Reading,
Reading,
RG6 6AS, UK

Phone: +44 (0)118 9875123 X 5090
Fax: +44 (0) 118 378 8160

e-mail: s.l.jury@reading.ac.uk

Status: State university

Foundation: 1900.

Number of specimens: 264,500

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·  Herbarium

  1. Phanerogams: Europe, especially Great Britain and Ireland, the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa (especially Morocco), Macaronesia, the Middle East, cool temperate South America;
  2. Pteridophytes: worldwide;
  3. Bryophytes: worldwide;
  4. Lichens: Europe, especially Great Britain and Ireland, Morocco.

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·  Main collectors represented

We are compiling a database of information about the collectors and their specimens held in our herbarium. Although far for complete, we have made the first version available. The Curator would welcome any corrections and additional information for inclusion.

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·  Included Herbaria

  • RU (Department of Agricultural Botany, The University of Reading)
  • SPN (including bryophytes originally collected by Ms Jean Paton, and Fabaceae collected by Professor F.A. Bisby)
  • WRO (The weed herbarium of the Long Ashton Research Station at Bristol, UK, originally at the Weed Research Organisation, Begbroke Hill, Oxford)

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·  Exchange

Angiosperms, pteridophytes, bryophytes and lichens of Europe, especially Great Britain and the Mediterranean. Wanted: higher plants of Europe, the Mediterranean, Middle East; cryptogams (excluding algae) worldwide.

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·  Remarks

Herbarium News published approximately three times a year (email subscriptions welcomed), issues available for consultation at: Herbarium News. Herbarium collections presently being entered in BRAHMS, accessible via www. Current projects include Euro+Med PlantBase, www.euromed.org.uk, ILDIS (International Legume Database and Information Service), www.ildis.org, Species 2000, www.sp2000.org, Moroccan Darwin Initiatives www.moroccanplants.net and Floristic Diversity of Northen Morocco.

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