Estonian University of Life Sciences Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Vascular Plant Herbarium

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 The Herbarium was founded in 1947, when the newly established Institute of Biology (later Institute of Zoology and Botany) was entrusted with the Estonian Naturalists’ Society’s collection of 15 000 herbarium sheets. This consisted mainly of the Society’s exchange herbarium, which was collected between 1920-1940, and of the Baltic-German Botanical Herbarium, collected mainly in the 19th century.

The Herbarium’s main focus is to collect and preserve specimens from taxa growing in Estonia. Besides providing data for answering taxonomic questions, the large quantity of material within the Herbarium makes it possible to investigate species’ patterns of variability and distribution. The Herbarium preserves genetic material from different time periods.

Link GBIF portal : https://www.gbif.org/dataset/6b5e4c2d-127f-492e-bf1c-2026d515e0de 

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First diffusion : 09/04/2021 

Last update : 30/11/2023