Description
The Bergius Herbarium is the Bergius Foundations historical collection. It consists mainly of P.J. Bergius own collection with some additions made by the two first Professor Bergiani, O. Swartz and J.E. Wikström. The last accessions were made in 1856. The Bergius Herbarium includes specimens of angiosperms, gymnosperms, algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens, including some type specimens. Important collectors are C.P. Thunberg, M. Grubb, D. Rolander, P. Osbeck, C.H. Wänman, C.G. Ekeberg, and O. Swartz. There are some 18000 specimens in the Bergius Herbarium, of which about 7200 are included in the dataset.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 7,170 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Wikström N (2016): The Bergius Herbarium. v1.2. Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=sbt-herbarium
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is GBIF-Sweden. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e4c7e3cc-f4f9-49df-be45-e1732014b6b8. GBIF-Sweden publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Historical herbarium; Angiosperms; Type; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Botanist/Garden Curator
Geographic Coverage
Specimens mainly from South Africa, West Indies, North America, South America, East Asia, and Europe
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Angiosperms, gymnosperms, lycophytes, algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichen
| Kingdom | Plantae, Fungi |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1750-1856 |
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| Living Time Period | 1750-1856 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | e4c7e3cc-f4f9-49df-be45-e1732014b6b8 |
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| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=sbt-herbarium |