Name | Costa herbarium |
Description | The herbarium of Antoni Cebrià Costa (1817-1886), author of Flora de Catalunya (1864), the first published synthesis of Catalan flora, has been on permanent loan from the Barcelona Royal Academy of Science and Arts since 1925 and includes around 15,000 specimens. It contains the type sheets of taxa such as Eleusine barcinonensis Costa and Delphinium loscosii Costa that were described by Costa himself or by Willkomm. The collection was revised by Font i Quer and Antoni de Bolòs. |
Kingdom coverage | Plantae |
Collectors | Costa Cuxart, Antonio Cipriano [et al.] |
Collection type | Preserved |
Primary purpose | Research |
Include types | Yes |
Grouping principle | Taxonomic |
Formations periods | 19th century |
Development statuses | Closed |
Documentation state | This collection has yet to be digitalized. |
Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
Institution | Botanical Institute of Barcelona - Herbarium |
Parent collection | Botanical Institute of Barcelona herbarium |
Associated person | Neus Ibáñez (Curator), |
Related material | Bolós, A. (1956). "El herbario de A.C.Costa". Collect. Bot. (Barcelona) 5 (1): 159-164. http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/Libro.php?Libro=2836&Pagina=161 |