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AN OVERVIEW OF ZAGR HERBARIUM OF THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE IN ZAGREB (CROATIA)

ZAGR herbarium is one of the youngest registered herbaria in Croatia and it is a part of the Department of Agricultural Botany of the Faculty of Agriculture in Zagreb (Croatia). Currently the collection has estimated from 7.500 to 10.000 herbarium sheets of vascular plants from the Mediterranean part of Croatia, Balkan Peninsula and other Mediterranean areas. At the moment, the ZAGR collection has 1275 plant taxa that cover 25% of Croatian national flora. The families with the largest number of herbarium specimens are Poaceae, Fabaceae and Asteraceae. The particular interests of ZAGR collection are 26 type specimens of recently described new taxa to science from Croatia, Albania and Greece. The most important value in ZAGR herbarium are specimens of rare and endemic plants (435 herbarium sheets) out of which 101 belong to endemic taxa that are 26% of total recorded Croatian endemic taxa. In total 1254 sheets of weed taxa and 31 invasive species are stored in herbarium. The collection contains more than 100 sheets of different specimens of agricultural important traditional and modern cultivars of genera Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Vitis, Olea and Triticum. Till now a total of 1655 herbarium sheets are digitalised and completely accessible online throughout ZAGR Virtual Herbarium database http://herbarium.agr.hr/.

virtual herbarium; ZAGR; Faculty of Agriculture

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