Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

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  • Name

    Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

  • Herbarium Code

    USM

  • Current Status

    Active

  • Correspondents

    Asunción Cano Echevarría, Director of the Herbarium, acanoe@unmsm.edu.pe

  • Contact

    [51] 6197000 ext. 5709
    Fax: [51] 265 6819
    Email: herbariousm@unmsm.edu.pe

  • Address

    Herbario San Marcos
    Division de Botánica
    Museo de Historia Natural
    Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
    Avenida Arenales 1256, Distrito Jesús María.
    Lima, Lima 15072
    Peru

  • Specialty

    Geography: Tropical Amazon Basin and Andes of Peru

  • Notes

    Updated Dec 2020 (staff, email address updated). Loans of rare species restricted.

  • Feedback

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  • Number of Specimens

    800000

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

    1948

  • Updated

    04/01/2023

  • Associated Institution

    Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos - UNMSM

  • Important Collectors

    A. Cano, E. Cerrate, R. Ferreyra, R. B. Foster, A. H. Gentry, C. Grandez, P. C. Hutchison, B. León, P. Nuñez, T. Plowman, A. Raimondi, D. Smith, O. Tovar S., R. Vasquez, A. Weberbauer, F. Woytkowski, J. J. Wurdack