University of the Philippines Baguio

Name

University of the Philippines Baguio

Herbarium Code

NLUH

Current Status

Active

Correspondents

Teodora Balangcod, Head of the Herbarium, tdbalangcod@up.edu.ph

Contact

[63] 074 442 7231
[63] 074 444 3128
Fax: [63] 074 444 3128
Email: c/o tdbalangcod@up.edu.ph

Address

herbarium
Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
University of the Philippines Baguio
Governor Pack Road
Baguio City 2600
Philippines

Specialty

Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants; bryophytes; lichens

Geography: Philippines, especially the Cordillera Administrative Region

Notes

Updated April 2017 (general update). Wanted: Other Plants of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Luzon, Philippines Available: Some Plants of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Luzon, Philippines The UP Baguio herbarium started as a student herbarium. It used to be very small with few collections from students and faculty researchers. At present, the herbarium has grown and is focused on keeping representative collections of the flora of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines. It is presently the only herbarium in the Region hence many students and researchers use the facility for the identification and verification of their plants for their studies. The herbarium is active in the collection of plants from various parts of the Cordillera. The herbarium will be transferred to a new building, the Biodiversity Center of the Cordillera, in the future when the building will have been constructed. There is also a plan for establishing a database of all the collections which will be shared on line. The main constraint of the herbarium is funding to develop and improve it further. There is no library yet and the meager books are the personal collections of the person in charge. The herbarium is open for donations of taxonomic books and other related literature and materials.

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