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CH-CJB Passport Collections

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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

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Seed Bank, DNA Bank
In the case of Botanical Gardens or institutions with living collections please give some figures on the size / importance of the living collections. The living collections with the Botanical Garden grounds contain around 12,000 species from all over the world. Most of the plants displayed in the garden have been grown from seeds that were received via the seed exchange system that operates between botanical gardens. Particular highlights of the collection are the renowned Rockeries that feature plants from mountain ranges across the World, the Greenhouses that include temperate and tropical plants as well as the arboretum that contains diverse tree species.

 

Collections statistics
6,000,000
80 parcels / ca. 3000 specimens. Currently 369 loans are active, totalling 27,252 specimens.
between 6000 and 25000
80
LIFE SCIENCES (Zoology, Biology, Botany, Mycology,…) 
 
  Typology Primary types Individual specimens/objects % registered cards % recorded cards in database
2.1 Botany 86000 5500000    
2.2 Mycology 5000 500000    
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