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Description: | Content of collection: Angiospermae, Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta.
The Turkey Collection of Higher Plants currently consists of approximately 850 specimens; mostly duplicates of material at Edinburgh. The collection predominantly contains flowering plants; both monocots and dicots. The families most represented in this collection are Compositae (around 180 specimens), Leguminosae (around 110 specimens) and Gramineae (around 100 specimens). There are also 32 ferns and 7 clubmosses. The specimens were collected in 1952 in Central Anatolia and Turkish regions around the Black Sea and Mediterranean.
There are types amongst the collection, such as holotype Galium antitauricum Ehrendor collected from Province Kayseri, type Astragalus hirsutus subsp. Paraglobosus, also collected from Kayseri, and holotype Galium davisii Ehrendorfer, collected from Province Maras. | Temporal: | 01/01/1952 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Contributor: | Acquisition details: The specimens were acquired by the University of Aberdeen in the late 1950s/ early 1960s. | Identifier: | ABDUH:CLD09 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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