The HUCS was founded in 1983, and have in its collection more than 40.000 voucher specimens among fungus ,lichens and plants grown in the northeast of the Rio Grande do Sul state, and also from national and international exchanges.

The Herbarium maintains the historical collection of Jürgens & Stier, German geographers which had collected ferns in our state in the beginning of the XX century.

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It´s not allowed selling data from the Herbarium and the source must be cited.

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Herbário da Universidade de Caxias do Sul, HUCS

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