HERBARY DR. ROBERTO MIGUEL KLEIN, SANTA CATARINA (FURB) André Luís de Gasper, Lucia Sevegnani (in memoriam)

Abstract

The herbarium Dr. Roberto Miguel Klein (FURB), collection area and type specimens, as well as it projects and contributions to the flora of the Subtropical Atlantic Forest are presented here. The FURB herbarium has about 50,000 records of vascular plants and has the largest collection of lycophytes and ferns in Southern Brazil, with more than 8,000 records. More than 15,000 scanned images of 4,436 species are available online, and it is expected that the whole collection will be scanned in less than one year.). There are five type specimens among them: one holotype, one isotype and four paratypes. To date, the FURB herbarium has donated 19,521 herbarium duplicates for identification or expansion of other herbaria.