PROFESSOR JOSÉ BADINI HERBARY, MINAS GERAIS (OUPR) Viviane Renata Scalon

Abstract

The OUPR collection includes the oldest collections of Minas Gerais, still indexed in the nineteenth century, originated from the Herbaria Escola de Farmácia de Ouro Preto (1892) and the Escola de Minas (1900), which were unified by the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in 1986 as "Herbarium Professor José Badini." With about 40,000 records covering vascular plants, lycophytes, ferns, lichens, fungi and algae. Primary depository of information on biodiversity mainly the Iron Quadrangle, an area of extreme biological importance in mostly composed of quartz and ferruginous rocky fields, the Herbarium OUPR has made available online approximately half of its collection.