Herbariums of Brazil - Presentation of the Special Edition André Luís Gasper, Ana Odete Santos Vieira

Abstract

In September 2015, of the 237 herbaria that are listed, 196 herbaria are considered active (with data updated as of October 2013), 11 herbaria are called transferred, that is, they were closed and their collections incorporated into other institutions, and for For the rest, the information is not updated and contact with curators and those responsible has not been reestablished or has been lost, making it impossible to record the status and location of the collections. For the 66th. National Congress (Santos, São Paulo) a special volume of UNISANTA Bioscience was proposed, which would bring together and expand updated information from herbaria in Brazil. All curators were asked to prepare the texts and images published here. Presented here are not all, but 60% of the herbaria active in the RBH (117 herbaria), from all regions of the country and almost all states. They are represented from the oldest herbaria in the country to the newest at RBH, consequently, our largest collections and those that are starting to develop their collections.