Description
Since 2014, the herbarium collections of Leiden, Utrecht, Wageningen and Amsterdam are included in the Botany Department of Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
- Taxonomic description
- No information
- Geographic description
- Wordwide, especially tropical Asia, tropical Africa, Central and South America
- Temporal description
- No information
- Notes
- Updated June 2022. Included WAG, U, and AMD which are merged with the Leiden (L) herbarium of Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
- Code
- L
- Number of specimens in collection
- 5,000,000
- Online Catalog/Database
- URL for Collection's Web Services
- Homepage
- Accession status
- Institutional
- Incorporated collections
- WAG in 2014 (1,000,000)
- U in 2009 (900,000)
- AMD in 2007 (200,000 specimens)
- AVU in 1986 (40,000 specimens)
- American and Asian vascular plants of GRO in 1984 (50,000 specimens)
- Techn. Univ. Delft in 1983
- NBV (150,000 specimens)
- Laboratory for Experimental Plant Systematics, Leiden.
- SRR (in part).
Collection descriptors
Collection descriptors allows a collection to be described in more detail. This can be useful for collections that are not yet digitized or for collections that have specific characteristics that are not covered by the standard collection metadata.
Contacts
- Phone number
- Country
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- City/Town
- Leiden
- Postal/Zip Code
- 2333 CR
- Address
- Darwinweg 2
- Mailing address
- Country
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- City/Town
- Leiden
- Postal/Zip Code
- 2300 RA
- Address
- P.O. Box 9517
Identifiers
- Code
- L
- Alternative codes
- UUtrecht Herbarium
- AMSAmsterdam Herbarium
- BotanyCode used in xhttps://doi.org/10.15468/ib5ypt
- WAGWageningen Herbarium
- Identifiers
- Identifier used by GBIF0add23db-a8f7-4d15-95ad-4ed0c5c8a055
Entry created: March 31, 2020
Last modified: July 30, 2025
Modified by: ih-sync