Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvador
Final calle los viveros,
Parque Saburo Hirao, San Salvador
El Salvador
Web: http://www.inbio.ac.cr/web_herbarios/web/museo_hn_salvador.htm
Jenny Elizabeth Menjívar, Biology with specialty in Botanic
Email: ['jenny78menjivar@yahoo.com', 'jenny78menjivar@hotmail.com']
Eunice Ester Echeverría, Administrator
Email: euniceester@hotmail.com
Started formal work in 1976 and has been formed as a product of botanical research in the country, the herbarium collections has MHES: Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts), algae, pteridophytes (ferns), gymnosperms and angiosperms, distributed in 218 botanical families, which have been ordered alphabetically, located in cabinets that provide protection and contribute to their conservation.
It also has a small collection of fruit and seeds Carpoteca, they are inventoried and should be part of a herbarium sample, their # registration herbarium sample match to keep the relationship on the information in the registers and Digital Database.
It's a very small herbarium even, we have 12,000 samples, 85% of which are identified to genus and species and 90% to family. We have 2 healers: Jenny Menjívar (main contact) and Jose Gabriel Cerén López.
Materials of Special Interest:
- Book of Edible Plants in Central America
- Book of Edible Wild Plants of El Salvador
- Natural Area Guide floristic Rio Sapo, Arambala Morazan
- Book Butterfly Host Plants
- Book of Plants used for handicrafts
- Herbarium botanical tours of the Museum of Natural History in El Salvador
- Samples of dry forests, wet and stopped, in different natural areas of El Salvador
- The Herbarium has 2 spaces: one for the deposit of collections that have been placed in 17 metal cabinets, work table with light and power stereoscope. a magnificent and literature. Other work space for assembly, labeling and digitization in digital database.