National Herbarium of Ukraine

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]

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Its collection of 2,040,000 specimens includes a number of type specimens, found both in Ukraine and elsewhere, by Ukrainian botanists.^[1]

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 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the herbarium was damaged by a Russian missile strike.^[3]

National Herbarium of Ukraine

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