Jagiellonian University

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  • Name

    Jagiellonian University

  • Herbarium Code

    KRA

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Marcin Nobis, Curator, m.nobis@uj.edu.pl

  • Contact

    [48] 12 663 36 64
    Email: m.nobis@uj.edu.pl

  • Address

    Herbarium
    Institute of Botany
    Jagiellonian University
    Kopernika 31 St.
    Kraków PL-31-501
    Poland
    http://www.ib.uj.edu.pl

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants, hepatics, fungi, and slime molds; tropical pteridophytes; phanerogams; lichens of polar regions

    Geography: Worldwide, especially Europe; Central Asia

  • Notes

    Updated Jul 2017 (geocoordinates updated). 30 000 bryophytes and lichens of KRA on permanent loan to KRAM. Private herbarium of Jan Kornas and Anna Medwecka-Kornas (40 000 specimens) stored at KRA. There are preserved also two historical herbaria of 18th century. The first is a book of 27 sheets (24,5 x 40 cm) with 172 specimens of plants labelled with pre-Linnean latin names. It was made by an unknown author after 1700. The second herbarium consists of four unified folio volumes (32 x 44,5 cm). The volume 1 includes 104 sheets, vol. 2 - 98, vol. 3 - 100, vol. 4 - 104 sheets and the herbarium contains 383 species of plants. After the title page the owner of the herbarium was ANDRZEJ BADURSKI (1740-1789), lecturer of medicine at Cracow University, educated at the University of Bologna. The herbarium was probably made under the supervision of GAETANO LORENZO MONTI (1712-1797), professor of medical botany at Bologna University. The Paleobotanical collection, of the Paleobotanic Museum , has a rich collection of over 150 thousand specimens of fossil plants (including microscopic preparations of the anatomy of certain plants) from all geological periods of Earth's history, from the Devonian period of the Holocene. The oldest exhibits date from the late XIX century (M. RACIBORSKI). One of the most valuable is a collection of Devonian first land plants. In the collection, there are several types of plants from the Devonian and Carboniferous period

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  • Number of Specimens

    800000

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae
    Bryophytes
    Fungi/Lichens
    Pteridophytes
    Seed Plants
  • Date Founded

    1780

  • Updated

    /07/2017

  • Associated Institution

    Associated garden: Botanic Garden, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 27, PL-31-501 Kraków.

  • Important Collectors

    A. Andrzejowski, E. Bauer, F. Berdau, W. Besser, H. Blaszczyk, A. C. H. Braun, B. Eichler, B. Guminska, R. F. Hohenacker, F. W. Hübner, W. Jastrzebowski, K. Jelski, J. Kornas, J. Krupa, G. M. Martens, A. Medwecka-Kornas , M. Nobis, S. F. O. Nordstedt, M. Olech, A. Pacyna, B. Pawlowski, G. L. Rabenhorst, M. Raciborski, A. Rehman, J. Rohlena , J. Rostafinski, K. Rouppert, F. Sennen, A. Slendzinski, A. Starzenski , B. Szafran , P. V. Titius, L. J. Wahlstedt, A. Wróblewski, A. Zajac, M. Zajac, A. Zalewski, A. Zmuda