Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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  • Name

    Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Herbarium Code

    KUN

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    En-De Liu, liuende@mail.kib.ac.cn
    Zhu-Liang Yang, Director, fungi@mail.kib.ac.cn

  • Contact

    [86] 871 65223299
    Fax: [86] 871 65213916
    Email: liuende@mail.kib.ac.cn

  • Address

    Herbarium
    Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    132 Lanhei Road, Heilongtan
    Kunming, Yunnan 650204
    People's Republic of China
    http://kun.kingdonia.org/

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: All groups except algae; some seed plants

    Geography: China, especially Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Tibet; southeastern Asia, America, and Europe

  • Notes

    Updated Jan 2015 (correspondent update). History: 1938, Yunnan Institute of Agriculture and Forestry; 1950, Kunming Workstation of Institute of Botany; 1958, Kunming Institute of Botany. 600,000 digitized specimens.

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  • Number of Specimens

    1114000

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

    1938

  • Updated

    /01/2015

  • Associated Institution

    Associated garden: Kunming Institute of Botany Botanical Garden, Heilongtan.

  • Incorporated Herbaria

    FM in part;
    National Academy of Peiping (Beijing) in part.

  • Important Collectors

    X.-T. Cai, G.-M. Feng, X.-J. Li, M.-G. Li, P.-Y. Mao, H. Peng, R.-C. Qin, B.-Y. Qiu, Q.-W. Wang, S.-G. Wu, Q.-A. Wu, Z.-Y. Wu, D.-J. Yu, M. Zang