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- Title
PLANT SPECIEs IN ALEXANDRU Beldie HERBARIUM COLLECTED FROM THE BALKAN AREA.
- Authors
Kachova, Vania; Dincă, Lucian; Cântar, Ilie; Vechiu, Emilia
- Abstract
Plants gathered from the Balkan area has an important place in the Alexandru Beldie Herbarium of the „Marin Drăcea" National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry (INCDS) in Bucharest. This fact is proven by their scientific and historical value, both through the high variety of species contained, as well as through the large area from which the plants have been collected for almost 150 years, an area that covers the entire Balkan region. The paper's main objectives are to collate the data on the main species collected from the Balkan area and present in the Herbarium and to describe the most important amongst them, including the rare ones as well as the oldest plants present in collections. Other objectives include the creation of a map of the areas from which plants were gathered and emphasizing the periods with a maximum development capacity for the Herbarium collections. The assignation of objectives is then followed by the presentation of the material used, namely 444 vouchers that contain 267 plant species collected from the area on the Balkan Peninsula. The work method is subsequently delineated, focusing on the systematization of vouchers that have been collected from the Balkan Peninsula, based on the species, year and place of collection and the person that has harvested each sample. Furthermore, an excerpt regarding the inventory of plants collected from the Balkans is also rendered. The personalities that have created this Balkan class of the Herbarium over 150 years are also mentioned, taking into consideration their professionalism in covering these extraordinary beautiful European areas in order to leave us an inestimable scientific and historical heritage.
- Subjects
BALKAN Peninsula; HERBARIA; PLANTS; SPECIES; BOTANISTS
- Publication
Forest Science (0861-007X), 2020, Vol 56, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0861-007X
- Publication type
Article