The type specimens in Eugen von Halácsy´s Herbarium Graecum
- Author(s)
- Dieter Reich, Walter Gutermann, Katharina Bardy, Heimo Rainer, Thomas Raus, Michaela Sonnleitner, Kit Tan, Margarita Lachmayer
- Abstract
Greece, as one of the European biodiversity hotspots, is long since in the focus of botanical investigations. Among historical researchers significantly contributing to the floristic and taxonomic exploration was Eugen von Halácsy, a Viennese physician and botanist. He was the first and so far last author of a complete Greek flora, the Conspectus Florae Graecae, and has compiled a seminal herbarium collection of plant specimens originating from Greece. This Herbarium Graecum of approx. 26,000 vouchers, is today held by the Herbarium of the University of Vienna (WU). Investigations for original material in this collection yielded a total of 1,439 (approx. 5.5 %) vouchers. The current type status was checked for the entire material, the vouchers were databased, photographed and geo-referenced, and the data are made publicly available here. These results are presented in an annotated catalogue including 19 lectotypifications, in order to contribute to the still extremely active field of plant biodiversity research in Greece.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Functional and Evolutionary Ecology
- External organisation(s)
- Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM), Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, University of Copenhagen, Universität Wien
- Journal
- Phytotaxa
- Volume
- 493
- Pages
- 1-156
- No. of pages
- 156
- ISSN
- 1179-3155
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.493.1.1
- Publication date
- 03-2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106008 Botany, 106003 Biodiversity research
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/the-type-specimens-in-eugen-von-halcsys-herbarium-graecum(363f53fd-8615-47c1-8fa8-fa95d7411f39).html