Contact information

Location: Gregor Mendel building, room MENH 01/20

For visits please contact:

DI Nora Stoeckl

Tel. 01/47654 - 83134 

E-mail

Overview

The herbarium collection holds around 80,000 specimens of higher plants with around 15,000 species and is recorded in an electronic database. The electronic inventory of the extensive moss collection (approx. 30,000 specimens) is in progress, the processing of the lichen collection (approx. 5,000 specimens) has not yet begun. (as of May 2022)

Entry in the federal research infrastructure database

Collection focus

  • Austria, territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire
  • Old regional flora of Vienna
  • Istria
  • Middle East
  • Ruderal and segetal flora (Austria, Southern Europe, Iran)
  • Nepal, Tibet
  • Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica

 

See:

SCHARFETTER, E. und BERNHARDT, K.-G.: Das Herbarium des Institutes für Botanik der Universität für Bodenkultur, 2002. In Tagungsbericht, 10. Österreichisches Botanikertreffen, BAL Gumpenstein.

STOECKL N. & BERNHARDT K.-G. (2022):150 Jahre belegte Natur. Das Herbarium WHB an der BOKU – Dokumentierte Biodiversität. In: Nachhaltig vorausschauen : 150 Jahre Universität für Bodenkultur Wien = Featuring future : 150 years University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. Festschrift, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien: 172-189.