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Description: | Content of collection: Angiospermae, Pteridophyta, Lycopodiophyta and Pinophyta.
The General Europe Collection of Higher Plants contains approximately 7600 sheets of specimens; encompassing 110 plant families. The main flowering plant families are Compositae (around 800 sheets), Leguminosae (approximately 680 sheets), Carophyllaceae, Gramineae, and Rosaceae, and there are several species which belong to genera Carex, Galium, Gentiana, Potentilla and Ranunculus. There are also around 80 sheets containing ferns, and a small amount of conifers and clubmosses.
Many of the plants in the General Europe Collection of Higher Plants were collected by F. Ahlberg in Scandinavia, in particular Sweden, during the 1860s and 1870s. Most of the other plants in the collection were also collected in the late nineteenth century, including several collected by A.E. Lomax in Spain in the 1890s. However, many plants were collected in the twentieth century, including ones from Sweden and Norway, a collection of flowering plants obtained during an Aberdeen-Oxford Expedition to Austria in 1949, plants collected by Dr. Peter Shaw Ashton in Spain during the 1970s, and plants collected in Corsica in the 1970s. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUH:CLD14 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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