National Herbarium of Ukraine

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The National Herbarium of Ukraine is a repository of plant specimens, in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was established in 1921 by Professor O. Fomin, who was its first curator.^[1] It is now part of the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.^[2]

Its collection of 2,040,000 specimens includes a number of

The herbarium is known by the short code KW, with specific sections being known as:[2]

• KW-A -
  Algotheca
  (algae)
• KW-B - Bryophytes
• KW-L - Lichens
• KW-M - Mycology herbarium (
  fungi
  and fungus-like organisms)
• KW-P -
  Palynotheca
  (pollen)

In October 2022, during the

External links

• Official website