The Herbarium of Niterói (NIT) is a local natural history collection for the municipality of Niterói (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) that houses sheets from several botanical families, as well as mounted plant tissue slides, timber, fruit and plant extract samples and ethnobotanical specimens. There are currently around 5000 deposited specimens.

Online since: 09/01/2020
Last update: 01/03/2025

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How to cite

Herbário de Niterói (NIT), http://gbg.sites.uff.br/herbario-nit/

Contacts

Director or head of department:
Saulo Cabral Bourguignon
gbg.egb@id.uff.br
Curator:
Adriana Quintella Lobão
alobao@id.uff.br
Biologist:
Andre Hoffmann
andrehoffmann@id.uff.br