Guide to collections

Salvador herbarium

Name Salvador herbarium
Cite as BC-Salvador
Description This collection was obtained by Font i Quer in 1945 via the Salvador family and is part of the Salvador Natural History Collection. It consists of samples collected in the 17-18th centuries, above all by Jaume Salvador i Pedrol (1649-1740) and Joan Salvador i Riera (1683-1725). This herbarium also contains plants collected by botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, James Petiver, Herman Boerhaave, Pierre Magnol, Antoine de Jussieu and Sébastien Vaillant.
This collection has has 4,917 herbarium specimens. The main part of the collection (4025 sheets) was digitalized in 1989-1992 under the auspices of the National Historical Heritage Plan directed by Àngel Romo. In 2001-2006 the collection was studied by Neus Ibáñez as part of her doctoral thesis. The remaining sheets (825) form an annex to the main collection and consist of American plants collected by Petiver and of European plants collected by Francesc Xavier Bolòs (donation in 19th century). This annex was studied and digitalized in 2013 by Neus Ibáñez and Pep Aurell. In 2014, 67 new specimens have been incorporated in the collection and are under study.