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- Title
COLLECTION OF TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL PLANTS AND GATHERING PRINCIPLES IN GREENHOUSES.
- Authors
Varkulevičienė, Judita
- Abstract
The gathering principles of tropical and subtropical plant collection in greenhouses of Kaunas Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University were analysed in 2012-2013. This collection was accumulated in the period of over 90 years since 1923. Currently it covers the area of about 665 m2. A large collection was accumulated of the world's plant diversity starting with Selaginella genus plants and ferns, ending with the youngest flowering plant groups. Polypodiopsida -- 8 families with 35 species (2.33%); Pinophyta -- 10 families associated with 23 species (1.53%) and Magnoliophyta -- 96 families associated with 1 442 species (96.13%). The collection was accumulated based on two criteria: accumulate a large taxonomic diversity and individual plant taxonomic complexes.
- Subjects
TROPICAL plants; GREENHOUSE plants; COLLECTION &; preservation of plant specimens; VYTAUTAS Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania); BOTANICAL gardens; PLANT diversity; ANGIOSPERMS
- Publication
Biologija, 2013, Vol 59, Issue 1, p126
- ISSN
1392-0146
- Publication type
Article