Museum National d'Historie Naturelle, France (MNHN-P)

The Museum national d'Histoire naturelle ranks among the world's foremost natural history institutes and has one of the most extensive plant collections, known as the Paris Herbarium. The herbarium includes more than 11 million specimens, collected from all over the world, including some very important collections from as early as the 16th century. Historical collections such as those of Jussieu and Lamarck, as well as the general collections, are particularly rich in type specimens of taxa described since the time of Linnaeus. This important research facility is open to international research efforts aimed at understanding and protecting the earth's biodiversity and promoting sustainable development and researchers from around the world visit the museum to consult the types and other specimens necessary for their research in taxonomy and other aspects of botany.

Contact: Vanessa Invernon, Collections Manager (vanessa.invernon@mnhn.fr)

Home Page: http://colhelper.mnhn.fr/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: Museum Nationale d'Historie Naturelle

Access Rights: Public Domain

• 345 specimen records
• 0 georeferenced
• 93 (27%) identified to species
• 33 families
• 30 genera
• 48 species
• 48 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)