Herbarium - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

Mike Hopkins1, Delano Campos de Oliveira1

1 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Av. André Araújo, 2.936 - Petrópolis, 69067-375, Manaus, Brazil

Corresponding author(s): Mike Hopkins (mikehopkins44@hotmail.com), Delano Campos de Oliveira (camposdelano@gmail.com)

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Abstract

The INPA herbarium was founded in 1954 and is the largest collection of Amazon plants in Brazil with ca. 260,000 collections, 90% of them from the Amazon region.  The collections is informatized in BRAHMS.  The principal collectors include Ghillian T. Prance, William A. Rodrigues and Carlos A. Cid Ferreira. The current curator is Michael J.G. Hopkins.

Keywords: Herbarium, Botany, INPA, Collection, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.inpa.gov.br/resource.do?r=inpa-herbarium-collection

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Taxonomic coverage of INPA's Herbarium.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Geographic coverage of INPA's Herbarium.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 4, 1846 - May 10, 2008

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: Not applicable
Collection name: Herbarium
Collection identifier: INPA-HERBARIUM
Specimen preservation method: Mounted

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Herbarium - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.inpa.gov.br/archive.do?r=inpa-herbarium-collection
Publication date of data: 2015-10-10
Language: Portuguese
Licenses of use: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CCZero 1.0 License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-11-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset