VIC Herbarium was founded in 1930, by Ynes Mexia. It is part of the Department of Plant Biology, Federal University of Viçosa. It is a regional herbarium with 54.000 specimens and 42 type-specimens, is the third collection of the Minas Gerais State. Renowned botanists deposited part of their collections in the VIC as: Agnes Chase, Howard S. Irwin and JG Kuhlmann. The collection consists of algae, fungi and plants, especially angiosperms from several ecosystems of the Minas Gerais State: caatinga, campos rupestres, cerrado and semi-deciduous rain forests included in the area of Atlantic Forest, as well as in other regions of Brazil.

Online since: 24/09/2014
Last update: 07/02/2025

Conditions for using the data

The Herbarium VIC data is available for use, since fulfilled the conditions: data utilization will be allowed with only the permission writed by Herbarium VIC curator; the name ''Universidade Federal de Viçosa

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Contacts

Curator:
Flávia Cristina Pinto Garcia
fcgarcia@ufv.br
Curator:
Pedro Bond Schwartsburd
pedro.schw@ufv.br
Curator:
Rita Maria de Carvalho Okano
carvalho@ufv.br
Technician:
Fernanda Lobão Gotti
herbario@ufv.br
Informatics:
Vanessa Miranda
vanessa.miranda@ufv.br
Scholarship holder:
Jaciara Lana
jaciaralana@yahoo.com.br