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Description: | Content of collection: Angiospermae.
The Greenland Collection of Higher Plants currently consists of approximately 720 sheets of specimens. The collection consists of flowering plant specimens, including approximately 100 Gramineae, 100 Cyperaceae and several specimens from the Cruciferae, Juncaceae and Saxifragaceae. The latter two families include many Carex and Saxifraga specimens. The majority of the specimens in the Greenland Collection were collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s by students at the University of Aberdeen. There are also, however, specimens collected by botanists during the early twentieth century. These include specimens collected by the Danish botanist Johannes Grøntved (1882-1956) during two trips to Greenland in the late 1920s and early 1930s, specimens collected by the Arctic explorer Gunnar Seidenfaden, and specimens from the Second Thule Expedition to Northern Greenland, 1916-1918; an expedition which was fatal for the collector of these specimens, Thorild Wulff. Specimens have been gathered from a variety of places in Greenland, but predominantly from areas in West Greenland such as Store Flado Island, Qaersorssuaq Island, Upernavik Island, Nuuk and Holsteinborg. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUH:CLD19 | Go to resource |
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