MBML Herbarium - Museu de Biologia Mello Leitão - Herbário Virtual REFLORA

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro on Apr 1, 2025 Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro

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Description

The collections of the National Institute of the Atlantic Forest (Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica – INMA), formerly known as the Professor Mello Leitão Biology Museum (Museu de Biologia Professor Mello Leitão – MBML) until February 2014, were established alongside the creation of the MBML in 1949. The INMA houses a biological collection, with a focus on the Atlantic Forest biota, particularly from the state of Espírito Santo, including faunal specimens across five groups of vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals), invertebrates(crustaceans and insects), and flora (herbarium). The MBML Herbarium was founded by the naturalist Augusto Ruschi, who incorporated his personal collection and plant specimens donated by the Espírito Santo State Department of Agriculture, Lands, and Colonization in the 1950s. Currently (2024), the herbarium holds approximately 57,000 specimens, with 2.08% being nomenclatural types. The primary purpose of the INMA botanical collection is to document the flora of the Atlantic Forest. The collection includes fungi, lichens, algae, bryophytes, ferns, lycophytes, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. Specimens are preserved in liquid medium (flowers and algae samples), as herbarium sheets (dried branches with leaves, flowers, and fruits), in a xylotheque (wood samples), and in a carpotheque (dry fruit specimens).

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As coleções do Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica – INMA, nova denominação do Museu de Biologia Professor Mello Leitão a partir de fevereiro de 2014, foram iniciadas juntamente com a criação do MBML em 1949. O INMA abriga um acervo biológico, com ênfase na biota da Mata Atlântica especialmente do estado do Espírito Santo, com lotes da fauna, distribuídos por cinco grupos de vertebrados (peixes, anfíbios, répteis, aves e mamíferos), invertebrados (crustáceos e insetos) e flora (herbário). O herbário MBML (Museu de Biologia prof. Mello Leitão) foi criado pelo naturalista Augusto Ruschi, ao agregar a sua coleção pessoal, exemplares de plantas doados pela Secretaria de Agricultura, Terras e Colonização do estado do Espírito Santo, na década de 1950. Atualmente (2024) possui aproximadamente mais de 57 mil registros e 2,08% deles são tipos nomenclaturais. O principal propósito da coleção botânica do INMA é documentar a Flora da Mata Atlântica. O acervo é formado por fungos, líquens, “algas”, “briófitas”, samambaias, licófitas, gimnorpermas e angiospermas. Este se encontra conservado em meio líquido (flores e amostras de “algas”), como exsicatas (ramos secos com folhas, flores e frutos), na xiloteca (amostras de madeira) e na carpoteca (exemplares de frutos secos).

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 26,180 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
26180
Identification 
5573
Multimedia 
5316

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Fernandes H (2025). MBML Herbarium - Museu de Biologia Mello Leitão - Herbário Virtual REFLORA. Version 1.177. Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/resource?r=mbml&v=1.177

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 143fd714-b939-4cf7-a078-acdde353a914.  Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Brazil.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Helio Fernandes
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Museu de Biologia Mello Leitão
  • Av. José Ruschi, nº 4 - Centro
29650-000 Santa Teresa
ES
BR
Rafaela Forzza
  • Point Of Contact
  • Reflora coordinator
Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden
  • Rua Pacheco Leão 915
22460-030 Rio de Janeiro
RJ
BR
  • +552132042082

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 143fd714-b939-4cf7-a078-acdde353a914
https://ipt.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/resource?r=mbml