| Name | Ruiz & Pavón herbarium |
| Cite as | BC-Ruiz & Pavón |
| Description | The Institute's herbarium contains a part (695 specimens) of the collection of Hipólito Ruiz (1754-1816) and José Pavón (1754-1840) that includes plants collected during the Spanish expeditions to America during which material was collected by M. Sessé, J.M. Mociño, H. Ruiz and J. Pavón, amongst others. It has been on permanent loan from the Barcelona Royal Academy of Science and Arts since 1925 and was digitalized in 2001-2006 by Neus Ibáñez as part of her doctoral thesis. In 2010, 243 more type sheets of species of special interest were digitalized. |
| Kingdom coverage | Plantae |
| Collectors | Mociño, José Mariano Pavón , José Ruiz, Hipólito Sessé, Martin [et al.] |
| Collection type | Preserved |
| Primary purpose | Research |
| Include types | Yes |
| Grouping principle | Expeditions |
| Formations periods | 1778-1926 |
| Development statuses | Closed |
| Collection extents | 695 specimens |
| Documentation state | All of the collection is digitalized and 243 herbarium sheets are digitalized in high-resolution. |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
| Institution | Botanical Institute of Barcelona - Herbarium |
| Parent collection | Botanical Institute of Barcelona herbarium |
| Associated person | Neus Ibáñez (Curator), |
| Item level access | GBIF-Spain: Institut Botanic de Barcelona, BC-Histórico (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/1523, 2013-07-15) |
| Related material | Ibáñez, N. (2006). "Estudis sobre cinc herbaris de l'Institut Botà nic de Barcelona". Tesi Doctoral. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/10261/5807 Ibáñez, N., Montserrat, J. M. & Soriano, I. (2006). "Collections from the Royal Spanish Expeditions to Latin America in the Botanic Institute of Barcelona (BC)". Willdenowia 36 (Special Issue): 595-599. http://hdl.handle.net/10261/28506 |
