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VIT Herbarium - Vascular Plants (The Natural History Museum of Alava)

Citation

Infante Sánchez M, Heras Pérez P (2023). VIT Herbarium - Vascular Plants (The Natural History Museum of Alava). Version 1.13. Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/tqcbr0 accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-10.

Description

VIT herbarium-Vasculars (Ferns and Phanerogams) contains ca. 139.000 sheets belonging to ca. 9.650 taxones. It contains 119 types. 70% of this collection is computerized. It was founded in 1975 by Pedro Uribe-Echebarría and Luis Antonio Pérez de Heredia, most of its specimens have been collected since then, but it also holds two historical herbaria, one dating from the XVIIIth century (Lorenzo Prestamero's herbarium) and the other from the XIXth century (José María de Lacoizqueta's herbarium).

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Plantae
    common name: Plants rank: kingdom
  2. Tracheophyta
    common name: Vascular plants rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

Best represented geographic areas: Spain (Basque region, Ebro valley, Aragón, Iberian Range, Cantabrian Range, Pyrenees). Others: Europe (France, Great Britain), Africa (Morocco), South America (Brazil, Peru).

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Marta Infante Sánchez
originator
position: associate curator
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava/Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava
ES
Telephone: + 34 945 181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Patxi Heras Pérez
originator
position: Curator
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava/Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Patxi Heras Pérez
metadata author
position: Curator
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava/Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava
ES
Telephone: + 34 945 181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Jesús Alonso Ramírez
custodian steward
position: Director
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava/Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava
ES
Telephone: + 34 945 181924
email: jalonso@araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Patxi Heras Pérez
administrative point of contact
position: Curator
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava/Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava
ES
Telephone: + 34 945 181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Jesús Alonso Ramírez
administrative point of contact
position: Custodian - director
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava/Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava
ES
Telephone: + 34 945 181924
email: jalonso@araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
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