M.G. Popov Herbarium, Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

The M.G. Popopv Herbarium is located within the Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. The herbarium contains 249,000 specimens and specializes in vascular plants from Siberia and Asiatic Russia.

The Russian botanist Mikhail Grigorievich Popov (1893–1955) was the author of more than 200 scientific publications and 10 monographs devoted to taxonomy and research on the flora of different regions of Eurasia, in particular, of Siberia, Middle Asia, Caucasus, the Carpathians, the Sakhalin Peninsula and in the region of Lake Baikal. Popov published about 300 new names of plants (Kovtonyuk, Belyaeva, 2015).

Materials contributed by M.G. Popov Herbarium, Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (NSK):

• Specimens