Herbarium Russian Academy of Sciences - V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
Professor Popov Str., 2
197376, St.-Petersburg
Russia
Rudolf Kamelin, member of RAS, Dr. of Sci., Prof., Director of the Herbarium
Email: cherneva29@mail.ru
Olga Tscherneva, Dr. of Sci., Main Investigator of Latin American project
Email: vdorofeyev@yandex.ru
The LE Herbarium numbers more than 6 million specimens from all over the world with about quarter of million specimens among them from Latin America. The LE Herbarium has approximately 200 000-250 000 specimens from Latin America in its holdings. The most important and famous collections from Latin America are those of G. Langsdorff (1814-1817 & 1821-1829) and L. Riedel (1821-1828 & 1831-1836) from Brazil, G. Mertens (1826) and W. Karwinsky (1841-1843) from Mexico, and plants collected in expeditions of the Soviet Rubber Trust in 1926-1928. These collections are rich in type and other original specimens.
The LE Herbarium has separate collections from: West Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia (General Sector), Eastern Europe (Russian Sector), Middle Asia and Kazakhstan (Middle Asian Sector), Siberia and the Russian Far East (Siberian Sector), Caucasus (Caucasian Sector), Mongolia, China, Korean Peninsula, and Japan (Central Asian Sector), with separate type collections for each.