Universidad Estatal Amazónica

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  • Name

    Universidad Estatal Amazónica

  • Herbarium Code

    ECUAMZ

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Mercedes Asanza, Herbarium Manager and Curator, masanza@uea.edu.ec
    David Neill, Research Director and Professor, dneill@uea.edu.ec
    Diego Gutiérrez, Administrative Curator, dgutierrez@uea.edu.ec

  • Contact

    [593] 3-303-0653
    Email: dgutierrez@uea.edu.ec

  • Address

    Herbario Amazónico del Ecuador
    Departamento de Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre
    Universidad Estatal Amazónica
    Paso lateral, km 2 ½ vía a Napo
    Puyo, Pastaza
    Ecuador
    www.uea.edu.ec

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi, lichens

    Geography: Amazonian Ecuador

  • Notes

    The Herbario Amazónico del Ecuador, ECUAMZ, is part of the Universidad Estatal Amazónica (UEA), a public university, the main campus of which is in Puyo, the capital of Pastaza province. The herbarium is located at the university`s research center, \"Centro de Investigación, Postgrado y Conservación Amazónica, known by the acronym CIPCA, 44 km north of Puyo along the road to Tena (Ecuador highway 45, kilometer 319). The CIPCA center is 3 km north of the town of Santa Clara, Pastaza, and 10 km south of the town of Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, Napo province. The CIPCA property includes 2848 hectares of which about 2000 hectares are primary forest at 600-1100 m elevation near the base of the Andes, and frontage along the Anzu and Piatua rivers. The herbarium includes collections made in Ecuador since 1985, as well as recent collections since 2012 by herbarium staff and collaborators. The ECUAMZ herbarium is normally open to visitor Monday-Friday, 8:30 to 16:30, but is closed at present due to the virus pandemic (June 2020) on the outskirts of Puyo, Pastaza. In mid-2013, the herbarium will move to permanent quarters at the University`s research station, the \"Centro de Investigación Postgrado y Conservación Amazónica\", CIPCA, with an associated botanical garden, germplasm collecton, phytochemical and molecular laboratories and a primary forest reserve of 2000 hectares, located 44 km north of Puyo along the highway to Tena in Napo province.

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  • Number of Specimens

    17561

  •   Num. of Specimens Num. Databased Num. Imaged
    Algae 0
    Bryophytes 1976
    Fungi/Lichens 1209
    Pteridophytes 1100
    Seed Plants 25000 17561
  • Date Founded

    2012

  • Updated

    02/07/2020

  • Associated Institution

    Universidad Estatal Amazónica, CIPCA Research Center

  • Important Collectors

    M. Asanza, P. E. Lozano, J. M. Manzanares, D. A. Neill, W. A. Palacios