The herbarium (5th largest in the world) and library collection (3rd largest in the world) of the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva Geneva collectively represent a huge resource of botanical specimens and botanical information.
The collection in Geneva contains a number of notable herbaria (Hedwig-Schwägrichen, de Candolle, Boissier, etc) that are invaluable for plant systematists today. The Geneva Herbarium Catalogue (http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/index.php?lang=en) is available on line, with 256551 specimen records available. The herbarium of Geneva constitutes ca. 6 million specimens from all over the world, with particularly rich representation from the Mediteranean region, Europeand the Alps, South America and Madagascar. Several large and historically important collections are housed within the G, including the closed herbaria of Herb. Hedwig-Schwägrichen (Hedwig-Schwägrichen collection: Species muscorum frondosorum), G-BOIS (Herbier Boissier: Flora orientalis); G-BU (Herbier Burnat: southern alps); G-DC (Herbier de Candolle: Prodromus; Monographiae Phanerogamarum).
G has been participating in the Global Plants Initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2006, and as a result of this unique opportunity just over 90,000 vascular plant,bryophyte, lichen and fungi types have been digitised to date (mid-November 2013).
The databased G specimens are available on: http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/index.php?lang=en
