La seminoteca del herbario TFC (SEGAI): desempolvando un pequeño gran tesoro

Abstract

T he seed library (“seminoteca”) of the Herbarium TFC, belonging to the General Research Support Service (SEGAI) of the University of La Laguna, is an accessory collection started in 1974 at the initiative of Dr Wildpret. Until 1985, it carried out exchanges through an Index Seminum (Department of Botany, 1974-1976 and 1978-1985). Subsequently, its activity ceased to focus on the conservation of the Herbarium main collections, and the seed collection, made up of 3061 samples, was left unused, except for some taxonomic queries. Now, we have undertaken the improvement of the general conservation of the collection, and we want to make it known to the scientific community. Taxonomic, spatial, and temporal coverage of the 1565 seed samples collected in the Canary Archipelago has been analysed, and an evaluation of the quality of the sample data has been carried out.