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Transfer of holotypes from CAY in French Guiana to P in France
Author(s) -
Cremers George
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.1002/j.1996-8175.2001.tb05619.x
Subject(s) - george (robot) , herbarium , citation , art history , art , library science , humanities , biology , ecology , computer science
The first scientific inventories on the Flora of French Guiana started by the end of the eighteenth century and increased during the first half of the nineteenth century. However, it is not until the creation of the ORSTOM Center of Cayenne, in 1957, that exhaustive inventories along the coast were undertaken, along with inland exploration of areas otherwise little known botanically, The Herbarium of the "Centre ORSTOM" (CAY) was officially created in 1965 by R.A.A. Oldernan, who occupied the post of curator from 1965 to 1974. 1 took over his post from 1976 to 1998, and. J.-J. de Granville is now the curator. The Cayenne herbarium contains nearly 120,000 specimens collected mainly in this department and about 10% from Surinam and Guyana. Ali the herbarium sheets have been registered in a databank, ca lied "AUBLET" to honour the botanist who published the first Flora of the country in 1775 (Hoff & al., 1989). The Botanical Institute of Utrecht (U) with other herbaria (B, CA Y, NY, P, US) started the publication of the Flora of the Guianas in 1983. These herbaria were joined later by K (U.K.), BBS (Suriname), and BRG (Guyana). Several specialists studied specimens collected mainly during the last decades. Nowadays, 12 to 15 new species are being described each year (Hoff & al., 1996). CAY received recognition because many botanists deposited holotypes of these new species there. Due to the uncertain future of CA Y, the scientific authority at ORSTOM (now I.R.D), and that of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle have strongly recommended that holotypes be deposited in the French National Herbarium (P), so that the scientific community will still have access to these reference specimens. Listed below are holotypes of 31 species from French Guiana that have been transferred to Paris.