HERBARY OF MACKENZIE PRESBITERIAN UNIVERSITY, SÃO PAULO (MACK) Leandro Tavares Azevedo Vieira

Abstract

The Herbarium MACK is linked to the Biological Sciences Program at the Presbyterian University Mackenzie, founded in 2009 in order to keep the collection available for educational purposes and scientific research of students and researchers of the course, and contributing to the knowledge of the flora from São Paulo state. Currently, holds about 2,500 herbarium specimens, mainly of angiosperms from field trips collections of the course of Biological Sciences, especially from Mixed Ombrophilous Forest of the city of Campos do Jordão, and more recently, from Cerrado of the State Park of Juquery in the city of Franco da Rocha. The claims of the Herbarium MACK is to start scanning all herbarium specimens in 2016 and joined the Index Herbarium until 2017.