Universidad de Costa Rica

Name

Universidad de Costa Rica

Herbarium Code

USJ

Current Status

Active

Correspondents

Mario Blanco, Coordinator of the Herbarium, mario.blancocoto@ucr.ac.cr
Melissa Mardones, Curator of fungi, melissa.mardones@ucr.ac.cr
Carlos Rojas, Curator of Mycetozoa (\"Myxomycetes\"), carlos.rojasalvarado@ucr.ac.cr

Contact

[506] 2511 5967
[506] 2511 8653
Fax: [506] 2511 5968

Address

Herbario Luis A. Fournier Origgi
Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical
Universidad de Costa Rica
Campus Rodrigo Facio, Escuela de Biología
San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José 11501-2060
Costa Rica
www.herbariousj.biologia.ucr.ac.cr/l

CITES

CR002

Specialty

Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants, bryophytes, algae, fungi, lichens, myxomycetes. Significant collections of Cyperaceae and Orchidaceae.

Geography: Costa Rica (major emphasis); Central America; central Europe; Argentina; U.S.A., Japan.

Quarantine Requirements

All incoming specimens from overseas require previous coordination. Incoming dry specimens are frozen for a minimum of 5 days before entering the collections. Fresh (live) material is not allowed inside the collection rooms.

Notes

Please do not send specimens from overseas as gifts or intended exchanges without previous coordination (all biological specimens that enter Costa Rica now require a special import permit). Historical account of the USJ Herbarium published in Revista de Biología Tropical 60: 1641-1648 (2012). Several hundred specimens destroyed by fire in 1965. Several hundred specimens damaged by water in 2007, but were successfully repaired (see Morales in Cuadernos de Investigación UNED 5: 181-184. 2013). In 2020 the custody and administration of the USJ Herbarium were transferred from the Escuela de Biología to the Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET), although it remains in the same building.

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