Herbarium of the Department of Botany

• established in 1946, older herbaria specimens are very rare;
• contains approx. 100000 vascular plant specimens, collected mostly in the area of Czech Republic and Slovakia;
• annual addition is approx. 5000 specimens;
• there is a special collection of some taxonomically critical groups, i.e.
  • genus Taraxacum, esp. section Ruderalia (containing at least 20000 specimens esp. from Moravia region)
  • genus Rubus, approx. 20000 specimens (predominantly from Moravia region as well);
• less available are specimens originating from other parts of Europe and world (e.g. South America, Oceania, Africa)

Specimens of former staff members (V. Bednář, J. Bednářová, J. Dostál, B. Jílek, O. Mrkos, V. Pluhař, V. Velísek) are of great importance as well as those of contemporary ones (M. Dančák, M. Duchoslav, A. Pečinka, B. Trávníček, R. Vašut). A great part of herbarium formed by students´ specimens, esp. MSc. students´. In spite of its enlarging the herbarium itself has no stable custodian yet. In case of an interest to study herbarium collections ask assoc.prof. RNDr. Bohumil Trávníček, Ph.D..

INDEX HERBARIORUM - a list of public herbarium collections of the Czech Republic could be found in the server of Moravian Country Province Museum in Brno.