The Herbarium of the Crimean Federal University was replenished with unique samples from the collection of Moscow State University

Krympress reports:

The Herbarium of the Agricultural Technology Academy of the Crimean Federal University was replenished with unique examples from the collection of Moscow State University. This was announced by the curator of Herbarium CSAU, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Andrei Yen.

Replenishment of the collection is always a big event. We received a gift from herbarium of Moscow State University, which is overseeated by the youngest doctor of sciences in Russia with a degree in Botanika Alexei Petrovich Seryogin. We received several hundred ecsicates, that is, specially prepared dubertic samples of plants collected from all over the post-Soviet space, are herbaric collections of the outstanding Soviet expert on Zlyakov Pavel Smirnov, who oversaw the herbarium of the Moscow University in the 1930s and at one time he sent out sets from cereals to support the taxesonomic and taxes. Botanical and geographical research. And part of such a collection was lost and found again,-quoted by the press service of KFU Andrei Yen.

According to him, the new collection, which includes many different types of holes listed in the Red Books of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and other subjects, will help to understand the exact belonging of species and enrich the ideas about the characteristics of the genus of the Kovil as a whole.

Of course, this collection will be useful for the development of botany with us. We have already received the first batch, which includes about 500 samples, mainly cereals, but there are plants from other families. In the next party, we are waiting for the fees from the Crimea, made in the 1950s and 60s large botanists. It will be interesting to compare our training camps with the training camps of that time, to see what has been preserved, what we no longer have, how the populations of these species have changed over the past decades— emphasizes Andrey Eun.

According to the specialist, now he, together with activists of the botanical circle of the agricultural technology academy, will have a lot of work to mount and place the obtained samples.

The herbarium of the Agricultural Technology Academy is registered under the acronym CSAU. To date, his collection has over 80 thousand herbaric sheets.

Source: KFU press service

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