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Description: | Content of collection: Angiospermae and Pteridophyta.
The African Collection of Higher Plants currently consists of approximately 480 sheets. The collection is predominantly made up of flowering plant specimens, including approximately 70 sheets of Gramineae and many Leguminosae, Compositae, Cyperaceae and Caryophyllaceae. The latter family includes several species of the genus Silene. There are also ferns collected by Henry Halcro Johnston. Most of the plants are herbaceous, though there are perennial woody plant specimens from the Tamaricaceae, Ebenaceae, and Anacardiaceae. The majority of specimens in the African Collection were collected in the latter half of the nineteenth century by important collectors such as George Curling Joad, Eugene Bourgeau, Benjamin Balansa and George Schimper. There are many specimens from George Schimper's 'Schimperi iter Abyssinicum' collection, and also a large collection of specimens gathered by Charles Henry Gimingham in Cyrenaica during 1951. Specimens have been gathered from a variety of places in Africa; in particular Libya, Algeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Ghana. Over 100 specimens were collected from the latter country by J.J. Houston, a student at the University of Aberdeen. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUH:CLD10 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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