Description
The French National Herbarium, estimated at 8 million
preserved specimens from around the world,
but particularly in France, Francophone Africa, New Caledonia,
Madagascar, Southeast Asia, in French Guiana .
It also has important collections in light of the history of botany:
Tournefort, Jussieu, Lamarck, Adanson, and those of famous travelers
as Bonpland, Michaud, Saint-Hilaire, Richard, D'Orbigny etc.
The designation at CITES is FR 75A. It publishes Adansonia, a botanical
periodical, and journals on
the flora of New Caledonia, Madagascar and Comores, Cambodia, Laos and
Vietnam, Cameroon, and Gabon.
French Version