T.B. Lee Herbarium Vascular Plant Collection
Citation
Kim H (2021). T.B. Lee Herbarium Vascular Plant Collection. Version 1.21. TB Lee Herbarium. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/3lchvw accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-23.Description
The T.B. Lee herbarium of Seoul National University(SNUA) houses 80,000 vascular plants specimens, most of which were collected within south Korea. Our earliest specimens were collected in the 1960’s by T.B. Lee and during the first part of the 21st century by several researchers. A recent focus of our collections is on the flora of woody plants in south Korea. The T.B. Lee Herbarium has used our own budget for the recording of collections using the BRAHMS database program. All records will be published at the GBIF website. The number of georeferenced specimens is constantly growing. Collector’s name and collection date were added for 40% specimens in December 2018. 15,000 occurrences were georeferenced by the support of BIFA project ‘Data mining of historical herbarium specimens from the Korean peninsula’. Currently, T.B. Lee Herbarium is the only Korean biodiversity database with standardized names, gazetteers and georeference in the Korean peninsula. It is the primary source for the “Distribution Atlas of the Korean peninsula Flora” and “Checklist of the Korea Flora” to be outworked in the Seoul National University in due time.Sampling Description
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Taxonomic Coverages
A large majority of our specimens are of native or naturalized vascular plant taxa in south Korea. Among vascular plants we have good collections of local flora including angiosperm, fern (and allies) taxa and extensive collections of woody plants.
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Tracheophyta
Geographic Coverages
Korea is located on the Korean Peninsula in North-East Asia. To the northwest, the Amnok River (Yalu River) separates Korea from China and to the northeast, the Duman River (Tumen River) separates Korea from China and Russia. The Yellow Sea is to the west, the East China Sea and Korea Strait is to the south, and the East Sea is to the east. Notable islands include Jeju Island (Jejudo), Ulleung Island (Ulleungdo), and Dok-do.
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Contacts
Hui Kimoriginator
position: Data manager
Mokpo National University
Youngsanro-1666
Muan-gun
Jeollanam-do
KR
Telephone: +82-61-450-2665
email: huikim@mokpo.ac.kr
Hui Kim
metadata author
email: huikim@mokpo.ac.kr
Hui Kim
user
email: huikim@mokpo.ac.kr
Chin S. Chang
administrative point of contact
position: Data manager
TB Lee herbarium
SinRim9-Dong San56-1
Kwanak-Gu
151-921
Seoul
KR
Telephone: +82-02-880-4770
email: quercus@plaza.snu.ac.kr
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