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The vascular plants collection (P) at the Herbarium of the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Citation

MNHN, Chagnoux S (2025). The vascular plants collection (P) at the Herbarium of the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - Paris). Version 69.416. MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/nc6rxy accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-14.

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.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Le Bras, G., Pignal, M., Jeanson, M. L., Muller, S., Aupic, C., Carré, B., … Haevermans, T. (2017, February 14). The French Muséum national d’histoire naturelle vascular plant herbarium collection dataset. Scientific Data. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.16 - https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.16

Contacts

MNHN
originator
position: Provider
MNHN
Simon Chagnoux
metadata author
MNHN
email: gbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Serge Muller
content provider
FR
Marc Jeanson
content provider
FR
Marc Pignal
administrative point of contact
position: Correspondant
MNHN
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