Museo Nacional de Historia Natural

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  • Name

    Museo Nacional de Historia Natural

  • Herbarium Code

    SGO

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Gloria Rojas, Curator, grojas@mnhn.cl

  • Contact

    [56] 2 680 4618
    Fax: [56] 2 680 4602

  • Address

    Herbario
    Sección Botánica
    Museo Nacional de Historia Natural
    Casilla 787
    Santiago
    Chile
    http://www.mnhn.cl

  • Specialty

    Taxonomic Coverage: All groups, especially vascular plants, marine algae, and fungi

    Geography: Chile

  • Notes

    Updated Aug 2012. SGO contains more than 98% of Philippi's types, original collections (including isotypes) of C. Gay (1830-1842) and C. G. Bertero (1828-1830), and R. Singer fungi from Chile (including 18% of his types). It is one of the oldest collections in South America.

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  • Number of Specimens

    145600

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

    1889

  • Updated

    /08/2012

  • Important Collectors

    C. G. L. Bertero, W. Biese, C. Gay, F. Johow, C. S. Kunth, W. Lechler, F. G. Meyer, C. Muñoz P., F. Philippi, R. A. Philippi, E. Pisano, K. F. Reiche, F. Ritter, F. Sellow, R. Singer, C. J. F. Skottsberg, B. Sparre