The Bergius Herbarium

Niklas Wikström1

1 Bergius Botanic Garden, Stockholm, Sweden

Corresponding author(s): Niklas Wikström (niklas@bergianska.se)

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Resource Citation

Wikström N (2016): The Bergius Herbarium. v1.2. Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=sbt-herbarium

Abstract

The Bergius Herbarium is the Bergius Foundations historical collection. It consists mainly of P.J. Bergius own collection with some additions made by the two first Professor Bergiani, O. Swartz and J.E. Wikström. The last accessions were made in 1856. The Bergius Herbarium includes specimens of angiosperms, gymnosperms, algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens, including some type specimens. Important collectors are C.P. Thunberg, M. Grubb, D. Rolander, P. Osbeck, C.H. Wänman, C.G. Ekeberg, and O. Swartz. There are some 18000 specimens in the Bergius Herbarium, of which about 7200 are included in the dataset.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Historical herbarium, Angiosperms, Type, Specimen, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=sbt-herbarium

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Angiosperms, gymnosperms, lycophytes, algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichen
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae, Fungi

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Specimens mainly from South Africa, West Indies, North America, South America, East Asia, and Europe
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Formation period: 1750-1856
Living time period: 1750-1856

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive The Bergius Herbarium
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://www.gbif.se/ipt/archive.do?r=sbt-herbarium
Publication date of data: 2023-04-20
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-11-19
Hierarchy level: Dataset