Herbari de la Universitat de València
c/ de Quart, 80
E-46008 València
Spain
Jesús Riera Vicent
Tel: [34] 963156830
Fax: [34] 963156826
Email: jesus.riera@uv.es
The Herbarium VAL came about by bringing together the old herbariums of the School of Biological Sciences and Pharmacy with the Garden’s own. It is housed in properly equipped researcher-friendly installations that guarantee preservation. The vouchers are stored in compact cupboards which can hold some 350,000 vouchers. The union of the aforementioned herbaria has created the most important herbarium in Valencian Comunity, and one of the most important in Spain, which houses over 215,000 vouchers.
The herbarium holds a collection representative of the flora from the eastern half of the Iberian Peninsula, in particular the Valencia region and the Sistema Ibérico mountain range. Currently, it is one of the basic herbaria of the Flora Iberica project:
Collection code: VAL
Number of specimens/data records: 215.000
Database percentage: 100%
Number of species: not avalaible
Include types? Yes, 304 vouchers
Georeferentiation percentage: 70.60%
Materials of Special Interest
- Personal herbaria of Vicent Guillem and Aureli Gamir, the two former are from the end of the 19th century, and also the collections conserve plants from Pau, Sennen and Font Quer, botanists with whom Gamir and Guillem exchanged plants.
- Personal herbarium of Josep Borja. Borja’s herbarium comprises mainly material from the genus Sideritis.
- Specimens from Mediterranean Region and peripherical areas, recently collected by Jaime Güemes and others, in charge of the Flora Iberica project.