Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava

  • Name

    Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava

  • Herbarium Code

    VIT

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Patxi Heras Pérez, Curator, bazzania.vit@gmail.com
    Marta Infante Sánchez, Associate Curator, bazzania.vit@gmail.com

  • Contact

    [34] 945 181924

  • Address

    Herbario
    Departamento de Botánica
    Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Alava
    Fra. De las Siervas de Jesús 24
    Vitoria-Gasteiz 01001
    Spain

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Algae, Bryophyta, Fungi, Lichens, and Vascular Plants

    Geography: Spain (Basque region, Ebro valley, Aragón, Iberian Range, Cantabrian Range, Pyrenees), Equatorial Guinea (bryophytes only); Europe (France, Great Britain), Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, USA

  • Exchange

    Exchange Available: Basque region; Ebro Valley; Iberian Range

    Exchange Wanted: Iberian Peninsula; western Europe

  • Notes

    updated April 2021. The herbarium contains the following exsiccatae: Exsiccata: Centurias de la Asociación de Herbarios Ibero Macaronésicos, Exsiccata Pteridophyta Iberica, Exsiccata Société pour échange des plantes vasculaires de l\'Europe occidentale et du Bassin méditerranéen, Brioteca Hispanica, Bauer Musci Europaei Exsiccatae, Bryophyte Selecta Africana, Exsiccata Japonica. The herbarium also contains these historical herbaria: Lorenzo Prestamero Herbarium (late XVIIIth century) and José María Lacoizqueta Herbarium (late XIXth century)

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  • Number of Specimens

    203000

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae 80
    Bryophytes 43400
    Fungi/Lichens 19800
    Pteridophytes
    Seed Plants 140000
  • Date Founded

    1975

  • Updated

    27/04/2021

  • Important Collectors

    J. M. Aparicio, A. E. Ascensión, G. Bastida, X. de Olano, M. Ángel Domingo, J. Etayo, P. Heras Pérez, L. Manso Izaguirre, J. Pérez Dacosta, M. Infante Sánchez, P. Uribe-Echebarría Díaz, P. Urrutia