Code
UPOSRegistration date
29-03-2023- Download the sheet
Description
The Pablo de Olavide University Herbarium is a young institution recently created (2002). It is specialized in sedges (Cyperaceae, especially of the megadiverse genus Carex) and Resedaceae, mainly from Europe, the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean Basin, in accordance with the main lines of research by researchers in the institution. However, it is also home to a broad spectrum of angiosperms from these and many other parts of the world. It currently consists of some 18,000 herbarium specimens, and is in full growth and digitation stage.
Overall information
Goals
Conservation and management of funds. Increase in the funds of the Herbarium through the organization of field campaigns. Research on flora and biodiversity. Dissemination and collaboration in the teaching of Botany. Exchange of specimens with other Herbaria.
Strengths
Systematics, Biogeography, Evolution of angiosperms and Conservation Floristics