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What is done with the plants in the herbarium?

At the “Roberto Miguel Klein Herbarium”, the plants are dried and fixed, one by one, on cardboard, to be kept on low temperature and humidity conditions. This way protected against fungus, insects and other organisms, the dried plants (herbarium specimens) can be preserved for decades.

Exsicata de Ocotea porosa (Imbuia)

The IFFSC counts with the collaboration of the botanist Marcos Sobral, a leading authority on taxonomy in Brazil. For the determination of the botanical material from the 2008 and 2009 stage, the project counts on the support of others taxonomists.

In the 2007/2010 stage of the IFFSC were collected 25.000 sterile plants and 23.000 fertile plants, resulting on a significant increase of the FURB herbarium collection. The unidentified specimens are sent to taxonomist specialists in Brazil and abroad. The herbarium database, which counts today with over 32.000 herbarium specimens, was totally digitalized.

About the “Roberto Miguel Klein Herbarium”

The FURB herbarium created in 1990, called Dr. Roberto Miguel Klein (1923-1992) – honoring the botanic and ecologist that studied the flora of Santa Catarina, characterizing the ecology and vegetation and was also a professor of our university. The herbarium aims to protect collections and encourage studies about the flora biodiversity, especially those at the National Park of Serra do Itajaí, at Itajaí Valley in Santa Catarina and is a part of the Botany Laboratory structure of the Natural Science Department of FURB.

Its structure is formed by two rooms, one that contains the collection and another to process the material, a total of 48 m². Counts today with 32.000 herbarium specimens, with a didactic wood collection, didactic mosses and pteridophyte collections. The collection is computerized providing easy access to species consultation and collection sites.

It is opened to exchange, consultation and loans. Accepts donations of specimens identified.

The herbarium is registered with the Index Herbarium of Missouri Botanical Garden, about FURB acronym. The indexing occurred in September 2007. The FURB herbarium is also linked to the Brazilian Network Herbaria.