V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

V. N. Karazin National Unversity hosts one of the major herbaria in Ukraine. The herbarium (acronym CWU) was founded in 1825 and now preserves ca. 300 000 specimens of plants, fungi and lichens, including type collections as well as mycological and lichenological exsiccates. CWU consists of three sub-repositories: 1) Kharkiv Botanical Garden; 2) Department of Botany; 3) Department of Mycology and Plant Resistance.