The herbarium of Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University: history and present

Abstract

The Herbarium of Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University started in the mid-twentieth century on the initiative of associate professor of Botany, Ph.D., R.V. Ganja. Today it has a total of more than 10000 sheets. In September 2009 herbarium was added to the list of international herbarium «Index Herbariorum». The sources of herbarium funds are collections of teachers and students of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, made during different types of educational and scientific work. Now Herbarium is located in a separate room in educational building of department of botany, ecology and methods of teaching the biology at the Botanical Garden of Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University. Herbarium sheets numbered and collected in cardboard folders. Herbarium funds placed on the system of A.L. Takhtadzhyan. Since 2003 the Scientific Herbarium of higher vascular plants is completed, which includes the following collections: the herbarium for teaching and demonstration; the personal herbarium of R.V. Ganja; the systematic scientific herbarium. The Herbarium for teaching and demonstration has about 1000 herbarium sheets and consists of morphological, systematic, ecological herbaria, and the herbarium of agricultural plants and weed, herbarium of introduced plants. The Personal R.V. Ganja’s Herbarium counts over 1000 herbarium sheets and includes flora species of Poltava region, collected during 1960-2003. The Scientific Systematic Herbarium has nearly 9000 herbarium sheets with samples of flora from different regions of Ukraine and some regions of Russian Federation. Annually herbarium fund critically reviewed and updated an average of about 700 samples. Work is currently underway to create a computer catalog fund of the Herbarium.