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    Collection code P

    Herbarium - MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle

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    FranceParis
    6,000,000 specimens
    Vanessa Invernon • Germinal Rouhan

    Description

    Updated Sep 2011. Sonnerat Database contains information about the Paris herbarium collections ; ( http://www.mnhn.fr/base/sonnerat.html).; ; Historical herbaria stored separately at P include: P-Ad. (Adanson); P-JJR (Aublet and J.-J. Rousseau); P-Bonpl. (Bonpland and Humboldt); P-Isn. (Danty d'Isnard); P-JU (Jussieu family); P-LA (Lamarck); P-Desf. (Desfontaines Flora Atlantica; main herbarium of Desfontaines at FI); P-Forst. (J. G. A. and J. R. Forster); P-TRF (Tournefort and Plumier); P-HA (von Haller); P-LOUR (Loureiro); P-MICH (A. and F.-A. Michaux); P-POUR (Pourret). P-CHEV (Chevalier), P-CO (Cosson), P-DU (Durand), and Vaillant herbaria have been incorporated in P. For recent information about regional herbaria located in Muséums d'Histoire Naturelle de Province, see Collections Publiques et Musées d'Histoire Naturelle en France (L. Leclaire and M. Blanc, coord.-edit., Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 1-154. 1989).
    Taxonomic description
    Vascular plants
    Geographic description
    Worldwide, especially Africa (northern, western, and equatorial), southeastern Asia, France, Europe, French Guiana, Madagascar, Mascarene and subantarctic islands, New Caledonia, Horne Islands, and Vanuatu
    Temporal description
    No information
    Notes
    Please use ""requests on the Museum's collections"" web interface for any formal request (Loan, visit, image,…): http://colhelper.mnhn.fr/ A user account must be created and loan applications must come from a curator in charge of a collection. Historical herbaria stored separately at P include: P-Ad. (Adanson); P-JJR (Aublet and J.-J. Rousseau); P-Bonpl. (Bonpland and Humboldt); P-Isn. (Danty d'Isnard); P-JU (Jussieu family); P-LA (Lamarck); P-Desf. (Desfontaines Flora Atlantica; main herbarium of Desfontaines at FI); P-Forst. (J. G. A. and J. R. Forster); P-TRF (Tournefort and Plumier); P-HA (von Haller); P-LOUR (Loureiro); P-MICH (A. and F.-A. Michaux); P-POUR (Pourret). P-CHEV (Chevalier), P-CO (Cosson), P-DU (Durand), and Vaillant herbaria have been incorporated in P. For recent information about regional herbaria located in Muséums d'Histoire Naturelle de Province, see Collections Publiques et Musées d'Histoire Naturelle en France (L. Leclaire and M. Blanc, coord.-edit., Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 1-154. 1989). Ministère de l'Education Nationale
    Code
    P
    Number of specimens in collection
    6,000,000
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    Incorporated collections
    • ABT (20 000 specimens)
    • SCB (3600 specimens) in 1970
    • most phanerogams of CN.
    • PCU incorporated in P (2004)
    • B. de Retz (60,000 specimens) in 2003

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    Contacts

    Country
    France
    City/Town
    Paris
    Postal/Zip Code
    75005
    Address
    16 rue Buffon
    Mailing address
    Country
    France
    City/Town
    Paris
    Postal/Zip Code
    75005
    Address
    57 rue Cuvier
    VI

    Vanessa Invernon

    Collections Manager
    GR

    Germinal Rouhan

    Scientific Head (P, PC)

    Identifiers

    Code
    P
    Identifiers
    Entry created: March 31, 2020
    Last modified: August 06, 2025
    Modified by: ih-sync