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The '''Komarov Botanical Institute''' of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] ({{lang-ru|Ботанический институт им. В.Л.Комарова РАН}}) is a leading [[botany|botanical]] institution in Russia, It is located on [[Aptekarsky Island]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]], and is named after the Russian [[botanist]] [[Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov]] (1869–1945). The institute was established in 1931 as merger of the Botanical Garden and the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences. |
The '''Komarov Botanical Institute''' of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] ({{lang-ru|Ботанический институт им. В.Л.Комарова РАН}}) is a leading [[botany|botanical]] institution in Russia, It is located on [[Aptekarsky Island]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]], and is named after the Russian [[botanist]] [[Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov]] (1869–1945). The institute was established in 1931 as merger of the Botanical Garden and the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences. |
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The institute hosts [[Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden]] as well as [[herbarium]] collections that house over seven million specimens of plants and [[fungus|fungi]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}} |
The institute hosts [[Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden]] as well as [[herbarium]] collections that house over seven million specimens of plants and [[fungus|fungi]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}} |
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Revision as of 19:05, 5 August 2023
The Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Template:Lang-ru) is a leading botanical institution in Russia, It is located on Aptekarsky Island in St. Petersburg, and is named after the Russian botanist Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869–1945). The institute was established in 1931 as merger of the Botanical Garden and the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences.
The institute hosts Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden as well as herbarium collections that house over seven million specimens of plants and fungi.[citation needed]
The Institute's LE Herbarium has approximately 200,000-250 000 specimens from Latin America in storage. The most known collections from Latin America include those of German naturalist G. Langsdorff (collected between 1814-1817 & 1821-1829) and German botanist Ludwig Riedel (1821-1828 & 1831-1836) from Brazil, G. Mertens (1826) and German naturalist Wilhelm Friedrich Karwinsky von Karwin (1841-1843) from Mexico, and plants collected in expeditions of the Soviet Rubber Trust in 1926-1928.[1]
Among the scientists who have worked there are Yevgenia Georgievna Pobedimova.
See also
References
- ^ "Herbarium Russian Academy of Sciences - V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Global Plants on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
Further reading
- Shetler, Stanwyn G. The Komarov Botanical Institute, 250 Years of Russian Research. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1967.
External links
- Herbarium Collections Database - https://www.binran.ru/collections/
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