Moscow State University

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  • Name

    Moscow State University

  • Herbarium Code

    MW

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Alexey Seregin, Curator, botanik.seregin@gmail.com
    Tatiana Tolpysheva, tolpysheva@mail.ru
    Elena Ignatova, misha_ignatov@list.ru

  • Contact

    [7] 495 939 50 21
    Fax: [7] 495 939 50 21
    Email: botanik.seregin@gmail.com

  • Address

    Herbarium
    Department of Ecology and Plant Geography
    Faculty of Biology
    Moscow State University
    Leninskie Gory 1
    Moscow 119991
    Russia
    https://plant.mitotech.ru/

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants (including 5,155 types); bryophytes (91,172 specimens); modest collection of lichens (ca. 10,000 specimens); diatoms (857 specimens, use MW-D acronym); no fungi and algae

    Geography: Worldwide vascular plants, but strong in the former U.S.S.R., especially European part (410,546 specimens), Caucasus (116,266), Crimea (34,190), Siberia and Russian Far East (196,131), and Middle Asia and Kazakhstan (104,968); Mongolia (27,755); western and central Europe (40,901); other Asian countries (33,074)

  • Exchange

    Exchange Available: European Russia, Caucasus

    Exchange Wanted: worldwide

  • Notes

    Updated Dec 2025 (general update). MW is the second largest herbarium of Russia with 18,400 additional accessions in 2025 (average annual growth ca. 15,000-20,000 specimens in the last decade). Loans and exchange are temporarily suspended, however samples for DNA studies are available on request. Historic collections of G. F. Hoffmann, J. F. Ehrhart, C. B. Trinius, I. Forster, and Herbarium Alchemillarum of V. N. Tikhomirov are stored separately. Complete digitization was finished in 2018, however unmounted historic collections are still missing online. Ca. 1,103,628 specimens are digitized and fully available via Moscow Digital Herbarium (https://plant.depo.msu.ru/) and GBIF (https://doi.org/10.15468/cpnhcc).

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  • Number of Specimens

    1157810

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae 857 857 0
    Bryophytes 91172 91172 88484
    Fungi/Lichens 10000 0 0
    Pteridophytes 25283 25283 25283
    Seed Plants 987173 925142 925142
  • Date Founded

    1765 or 1780

  • Updated

    12/12/2025

  • Associated Institution

    Associated garden: Moscow State University Botanic Garden

  • Incorporated Herbaria

    Badkhyz Reserve, Turkmenistan, ca. 1,000 specimens (2017);
    Insitute of Forest Studies, Russian Academy of Sciencies, ca. 28,000 specimens (2022).;
    Institute of physicochemical and biological problems in soil science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ca. 1,000 specimens (2018);
    Kostroma State University, laboratory of forest ecosystem stability, ca. 2,000 specimens (2016);
    Medical and Surgical Academy;
    MOSP (in part - A. Zernov collections);
    Societas Naturae Curiosorum Mosquensis;
    Vladimir Museum of Nature, ca. 500 specimens (2019)

  • Important Collectors

    M. F. Adams, V. V. Alechin, Y. E. Alexeev, A. M. Amirkhanov, N. V. Androssov, N. I. Annenkov, S. A. Balandin, F. A. M. von Bieberstein, E. Boissier, A. K. Boschnjak, A. J. Bronzov, S. S. Charkevicz, G. I. Cherkasova, L. N. Chilikina, H. Cuming, T. G. Dervis-Sokolova, J. Dickson, G. I. Dochman, M. S. Dvorakovsky, J. F. Ehrhart, A. G. Elenevsky, R. A. Elenevsky, V. R. Filin, A. F. Flerov, I. Forster, J. G. A. Forster, E. E. Gogina, L. F. Goldbach, M. I. Golenkin, V. P. Goloskokov, I. N. Goroshankin, V. S. Govoruchin, G. E. Grosset, A. A. Grossheim, I. A. Gubanov, A. von Haller, H. C. Haussknecht, G. F. Hoffmann, F. R. Hohenacker, D. H. Hoppe, M. S. Ignatov, N. N. Kaden, M. N. Karavaev, G. S. Karelin, N. J. Katz, N. N. Kauffmann, A. P. Khokhrjakov, K. V. Kiseleva, E. V. Kluykov, V. L. Komarov, E. P. Korovin, A. V. Koshevnikov, S. I. Korshinsky, I. P. Kirilow, T. Kotschy, J. Krause, I. M. Krasnoborov, M. V. Kultiassov, V. B. Kuvajev, F. S. Leontijev, C. Linnaeus, S. Y. Lipschitz, D. I. Litvinov, S. R. Majorov, M. A. Maximowicz, K. I. Meyer, K. Meinshausen, G. V. Mikeschin, D. Murray, M. I. Nazarov, V. S. Novikov, P. T. Novograblenov, I. V. Novopokrovsky, I. V. Palibin, N. V. Pavlov, V. N. Pavlov, M. G. Pimenov, A. N. Petunnikov, G. M. Proskurjakova, N. A. Prozorovsky, M. G. Popov, E. B. Pospelova, I. A. Rajkova, L. E. Rodin, F. I. Ruprecht, A. I. Schreter, N. V. Schipczinskij, I. S. Schtschukin, A. I. Schrenk, N. K. Schvedchikova, I. G. Serebrjakov, I. E. Shavrov, P. V. Sjuzev, P. A. Smirnov, V. I. Smirnov, D. D. Sokolov, S. S. Stankov, C. von Steven, V. N. Sukaczev, D. P. Syreistschikov, G. V. Tekutjeva, V. N. Tikhomirov, T. T. Trofimov, C. B. Trinius, N. S. Turczaninow, A. P. Tyrtikov, L. A. Utkin, V. N. Vekhov, T. B. Vernander, S. V. Viktorov, A. G. Voronov, V. N. Voroschilov, A. S. Zernov, A. E. Zhadovsky, P. P. Zhudova, V. Y. Zinger