TUL Herbarium: collections of vascular plants of Tula Oblast, Russia

Abstract

TUL Herbarium presents collections from Tula Oblast stored at the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, which is an educational and scientific institution that supports various types of scientific activities including research on biodiversity and nature conservation. The university is a holder of some biological collections such as herbarium of vascular plants, mosses, and fungi collected mainly throughout Tula Oblast and in adjacent regions.The collections of vascular plants (9,000 specimens) were imaged in December 2019 and January 2020 by the commercial partner. Databasing and georeferencing of the specimens from the TUL Herbarium was performed by staff members of the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University and Tula Local History Museum. Digital collections of the TUL Herbarium are fully available in the Moscow Digital Herbarium (https://plant.depo.msu.ru/) and GBIF (https://doi.org/10.15468/ca08cm).

Keywords

• Russia
• Eastern Europe
• Tula Oblast
• herbarium
• co