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THE HISTORIC AND CURRENT STATUS OF HERBARIA IN CHINA
Author(s) -
Ma Weiliang
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1222092
Subject(s) - herbarium , china , flora (microbiology) , geography , natural resource , environmental protection , ecology , archaeology , biology , genetics , bacteria
Summary China is a large country, vast in territory and rich in natural resources. But the country has been isolated from the international botanical community for the past several decades. Since Liberation in 1949 the number of herbaria in China has increased by more than 500%. At the same time an extensive program to inventory the nation's botanical wealth and produce a flora for all of China has been undertaken. This paper attempts to summarize the history of herbaria in China and to make known their current status so that the rich resources they contain may become better known to the world's botanists.