Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to present the herbarium of the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana’s and its collection. The history of the HUCP had its beginning in the middle of the 1970s with the foundation of the Biology Museum that gathered both botanical and zoological specimens. In April 1979 collections were separated and the HUCP was founded with preserved specimens of algae (green, red, and brown), fungi, and embryophytes. As of October 2016, the collection encompasses nearly 25,000 specimens from 4934 species, 1609 genera, and 297 families. Most of the specimens comes from the state of Paraná but there were also specimens from many Brazilian states and other countries, mainly from South America (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Colombia) but also from other parts of the world (Cuba, USA, Spain, Germany, China, and Australia). Our collection includes 42 fungi, 258 gymnosperms, 299 bryophytes, 2809 pteridophytes, 3158 algae, 17,832 angiosperms, and only one type of Mimosa (Mimosa tucumensis Barneby ex Ribas, M. Morales & Santos-Silva—Fabaceae). We also have botanical education and education for sustainability programs for basic and high school students and training for teachers.
Highlights
The Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR) is a non-profit university situated in Southern Brazil, in the city of Curitiba, that offers 66 undergraduate courses
The School of Life Sciences is composed of 12 undergraduate degrees offered at Established in 1952 as “Natural History” in the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Curitiba, the Biology course, renamed only on 1964, is one of the oldest from PUCPR
The current greatest challenge in our herbaria is to digitize every single record in our collection in order to join the REFLORA Virtual Herbarium [22] part of the Brazilian Flora 2020 project [10], and the Brazilian Virtual Herbarium of Plants and Fungi—INCT [23]
Summary
The Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR) is a non-profit university situated in Southern Brazil, in the city of Curitiba, that offers 66 undergraduate courses. Established in 1952 as “Natural History” in the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Curitiba, the Biology course, renamed only on 1964, is one of the oldest from PUCPR. By the early 1970s the biology course was growing fast with respect to both students and research. In 1973 two professors—Rudolf Bruno Lange and Estefano Francisco Jablonski (1948–2016)—decided to create a biology museum. This institution brought together the zoological and botanical collection along with anthropological, geological, and fossil records. On the year of 1995, it was included on the Index Herbariorum [3] Nowadays it is registered at the Global Registry of Scientific. Collections [4] and at TAXonline [5]
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