The HUCO Herbarium started its activities on June 10, 2002 as Institutional Extension Project. It has been inserted in the Department of Forestry Engineering of the Midwestern State University (UNICENTRO), campus Irati/Parana, Laboratory of Conservation Nature since 2008. The Herbarium maintains a predominantly representative collection of the Araucaria Forest, Dense, Seasonal and Brazilian cerrado. It has a collection comprising 115 families, 483 genera, 925 species and maintaining an interchange policy with exchange and loans programs.

Conditions for using the data

Data records of the HUCO Herbarium Collection are available for using in the following conditions: it is forbidden to sell data, it is required to inform the responsible person for collection when data are used and to send a copy of publication in which data are cited. The Herbarium does not give warranties of accuracy on identification of specimens and associated data.

How to cite

Herbário da UNICENTRO, campus Irati/PR, HUCO

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