National Herbarium of Ukraine, M.G.Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
2 Tereshcenkivska Street
Kiev 01601
Ukraine
Sergei L. Mosyakin
Email: s_mosyakin@hotmail.com
Collections of Ukraine's flora (700 000 specimens) is the main part of the KW Herbarium. The oldest materials (XIX century) were collected by W. Besser, A. Andrzejowsky, F.Marschall von Bieberstein, P. Rogowich, I. Schmalhausen, V.Montresor, V.Chernjaev, V.Taliev, G.Shiryaev, and others. There are rich collections (XX century ) of M.Kotov, Yu.Kleopow, D.Dobrochaeva, O.Dubovik, A.Barbarych, G.Kuznetsova, G.Bilyk and others. All species of vascular plants of the flora of Ukraine are well repesented. During the taxonomic study of some families and genera of Ukraine's flora, the serial herbarium material was collected: Boraginaceae; Centaurea L. (D.Dobrochaeva); Poaceae, Rosa L., Genista L., Astragalus L., Galium L. (O. Dubovik); Equisetaceae, Amaranthaceae, Chenopodiaceae; Artemisia L., Erigeron L., Xanthium L. (V.Protopopova); Chenopodiaceae, Amaranthaceae; Artemisia L. (S.Mosyakin); Alliaceae (T. Myakushko); Astragalus L., Lotus L., Onobrychis Mill., Medicago L., Achillea L. (L.Krytzka); Ranunculaceae (S.Ziman); Apiaceae; Crataegus L., Vicia L. (M.Fedoronchuk); Chamaecytisus Link, Oenothera L. (M.Shevera), Brassicaceae (A.Iljinska), and other taxonomic groups. Synanthropic plants are also well represented (M.Kotov, V.Protopopova, S.Mosyakin, M.Shevera).
The Herbarium of CIS countries (250 000 specimens) occupies the second place among the collections of vascular plants. Its funds are composed on the basis of herbarium collections by the staff of the Institute and of exchange with other botanical institutions of the USSR. The richest among them are the materials from the Far East, Kamchatka, the Kurils, Siberia, the European part of the former USSR, the Caucasus, the Urals, Central Asia, etc. Rich material in some taxonomic groups was collected: Asteraceae (Centaurea L., Асhillea L., Hieracium L., Senecio L.), Campanulaceae (Campanula L.), Caryophyllaceae (Dianthus L., Silene L.), Chenopodiaceae (Chenopodium L., Salsola L.), Cyperaceae (Сarex L.), Fabaceae (Astragalus L., Medicago L.), Poaceae (Festuca L., Stipa L.), Polygonaceae (Polygonum L.), Ranunculaceae (Anemone L., Ranunculus L.), Rosaceae (Rosa L.).