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Herbarium ZAGR of the Faculty of Agriculture (Zagreb, Croatia)

Herbarium ZAGR of the Faculty of Agriculture (Zagreb) is the youngest registered herbarium in Croatia. Currently the collection has estimated from 7.500 to 10.000 herbarium sheets of vascular plants, especially rich in specimens from the Adriatic part of Croatia, Balkan territories and other Mediterranean areas. Currently the ZAGR collection has 1275 plant taxa and covers 25% of Croatian national flora. The families with the largest number of herbarium specimens are Poaceae, Fabaceae and Asteraceae. A total of 1655 herbarium sheets are digitalised and are accessible online throughout ZAGR Virtual Herbarium database http://herbarium.agr.hr/. The particular interest of ZAGR collection are 26 type specimens of recently described new taxa to science from Croatia, Albania and Greece. Of important value in ZAGR herbarium are specimens of rare and endemic plants (435 sheets) out of which 101 belong to endemic taxa, which is 26% of total recorded Croatian endemic taxa. In total 1254 sheets of weed taxa and 31 invasive species are stored in herbarium. ZAGR collection contains more then 100 sheets of different specimens of agricultural important traditional and modern cultivars.

agriculture ; biodiversity ; botany ; conservation ; collections ; digitalization ; herbarium specimens

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