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Research facilities: Jodrell
Laboratory | Kew Herbarium | Millennium
Seed Bank
The
Kew Herbarium, founded in 1853, has a central role for
research on plant biodiversity on earth.
There are currently
over 7,000,000 specimens, including approximately 350,000
type specimens, representing nearly 98 percent of all
of the genera in the world.
Today the collection is
still growing with a yearly addition of 30-40,000 new
specimens
through a programme of joint work with overseas colleagues,
expeditions, gifts and exchanges with other institutes
at home and abroad.
The herbarium at Kew is one
of the best curated international-scale herbaria in the
world,
making specimen and information access easy.
The Herbarium houses worldwide
vascular plants and larger fungi, and is especially rich
in types and collections from Africa, tropical Asia and
Australasia. There is also an emphasis on families of
major economic importance (Leguminosae, Poaceae, Orchidaceae). |
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The Herbarium also holds a botanical library comprising more
than 750,000 volumes including 140,000 monographs, 4,000 periodical
titles, 140,000 pamphlets/separata and 11,000 maps. The illustrations
and photographic collections also has over 175,000 prints and
drawings and over 200,000 images, many already in digital form,
that include approximately 100,000 photographs of plants and
their habitats. A further 100,000 photographs document the people,
buildings, gardens and history of the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew.
http://www.kew.org/collections/herbcol.html
Hosted by University of Colorado, Department
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