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Name

University of Alberta
Herbarium Code

ALTA
Current Status

Active
Correspondents

Catherine La Farge, Curator and Director, Cryptogamic Herbarium, clafarge@ualberta.ca
Jocelyn Hall, Curator of Vacular Plant Herbarium, jocelyn.hall@ualberta.ca
Toby Spribille, Director and Curator of the Cryptogamic Herbarium, spirbill@ualberta.ca
Eva Koppelhus, Curator of Paleobotanical Collection, ebk@ualberta.ca
Kate St.Onge, Assistant Curator of Vascular Plant Herbarium, krstonge@ualberta.ca
Contact

[1] 780 492 5523 (vascular plants)
[1] 780 492 5518 (paleobotany)
[1] 780 492-5528 (cryptogams)
Fax: [1] 780 492 9234
Email: jocelyn.hall@ualberta.ca
Address

Herbarium
Biological Sciences Department
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9
Canada
http://www.biology.museums.ualberta.ca/VascularPlantHerbarium.aspx
CITES

CA 010
Specialty

Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens; Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Carboniferous fossils

Geography: Arctic and cordilleran Canada; New World and Australasia
Notes

Updated Feb 2017 (website URL updated). UAPC now incorporated into ALTA. Index to paleobotanical collections can be found here: http://www.museums.ualberta.ca/dig/naturalhist/fossils/paleobotanical/index.html
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Date Founded

1916
Updated

/02/2017
Associated Institution

Associated garden: Devonian Botanic Garden, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Michael Hickman, Director.
Incorporated Herbaria

UAPC (127,000 fossil specimens, in 2014)
Important Collectors

S. Flowers, W. C. McCalla, E. H. Moss, J. G. Packer, W. N. Stewart, G. H. Turner, D. H. Vitt