The vascular plants collection (P) at the Herbarium of the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - Paris)
Citation
MNHN - Museum national d’Histoire naturelle (2018). The vascular plants collection § at the Herbarium of the Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - Paris). Version 69.86. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/nc6rxy accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-10-22.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
- 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
MNHNoriginator
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