Extension Activities at the SORO Herbarium (UFSCar - Sorocaba Campus): the collection at the service of the community Fiorella Fernanda Mazine, Nicolli Bruna Cabello de Almeida, Taís Marcondes de Oliveira Fernandes, Daiane Vilas Boas Teixeira, Jaqueline Figueiredo de Almeida, Karinne Sampaio Valdemarin

Abstract

The SORO Herbarium at the Federal University of São Carlos - Sorocaba campus is a laboratory whose main objective is to serve as a tool for teachers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the scope of research, teaching and extension. It has a collection of approximately 4,900 computerized plants, and the families with the largest number of species in the collection are Fabaceae and Myrtaceae. The Myrtaceae family, the focus of study for much of the work carried out, has a large representation in terms of the number of specimens and collection locations in its collection. The computerization process has the help of undergraduate students. Some extension projects have been carried out by university students, in which the herbarium becomes the main source of information and tool for identifying botanical materials. The extension projects currently carried out are: “Open University”, “Identification of giant trees in the Atlantic Forest”, “Guide to identifying species through the trunk of a fragment of Semideciduous Forest, Sorocaba, SP” and “Guide to identifying species of Eugenia L. (Myrtaceae) edible and medicinal in the municipality of Sorocaba, SP”. The herbarium is of great importance in the administrative region of Sorocaba, as it brings together plants from the region.