PEL herbarium - Universidade Federal de Pelotas - Herbário Virtual REFLORA

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

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Description

The PEL Herbarium is committed to maintaining properly preserved plant specimens, establishing itself as a permanent and continuously expanding biological collection. It is available for consultation by the scientific community and researchers, while also supporting teaching, research, and outreach activities. The herbarium’s objectives include studying and conserving flora and promoting exchanges with national and international herbaria. Its activities contribute to human resource training and encourage scholars from various scientific fields, as well as the general public, to recognize the strategic importance of herbaria for science and environmental conservation. The Herbarium of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) was established in 1946 by botanist Brother Teodoro Luis, who started a plant collection within the Botany Section of the former Southern Agronomic Institute (IAS). In 1975, through an agreement, the herbarium was transferred from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) to UFPel, where it has since been under the responsibility of the Department of Botany at the Institute of Biology/UFPel. The herbarium is registered in the Index Herbariorum under the acronym PEL and is also part of the Brazilian Network of Herbaria and the State Herbarium Network. The collection comprises approximately 27,000 specimens, making it the fourth-largest plant collection in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It houses regional flora specimens as well as others obtained from various private collections, collection efforts by local and visiting researchers, donations, and exchanges.

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O Herbário PEL tem por missão manter amostras de plantas conservadas adequadamente, configurando-se como uma coleção biológica permanente e em constante expansão, disponível para consulta pela comunidade científica e por estudiosos, possibilitando também o exercício das atividades de ensino, pesquisa e extensão. Tem como objetivo estudar e conservar a flora e realizar intercâmbios com herbários nacionais e internacionais. Suas atividades visam auxiliar na formação de recursos humanos e motivar estudiosos de outros campos da ciência e o público em geral a perceber a importância estratégica dos herbários para a ciência e para a conservação ambiental. O Herbário da Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel) foi criado em 1946 pelo botânico Irmão Teodoro Luis, o qual iniciou uma coleção de plantas junto à Seção de Botânica do antigo Instituto Agronômico do Sul (IAS). Em 1975, o Herbário, através de um convênio, passou da Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisas Agropecuárias (EMBRAPA) à UFPel, permanecendo desde então, sob a responsabilidade do Departamento de Botânica do Instituto de Biologia/UFPel. O Herbário encontra-se registrado no Index Herbariorum , sob o acrônimo PEL. Também faz parte da Rede Brasileira de Herbários e da Rede Estadual de Herbários. O acervo é formado por aproximadamente 27.000 exsicatas e representa a quarta maior coleção de plantas do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Ali se encontram depositados exemplares da flora regional e outros, oriundos de diversas coleções particulares e de esforços de coleta de muitos pesquisadores locais e visitantes, doações e permutas.

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 12,337 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)
12337
Multimedia 
13065
Identification 
12487

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Scherer C (2025). PEL herbarium - Universidade Federal de Pelotas - Herbário Virtual REFLORA. Version 1.7. Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/resource?r=pel&v=1.7

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f15facfb-b1da-4fdd-b4cb-94a850ee6b0b.  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

Contacts

Caroline Scherer
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curadora
PEL - Universidade Federal de Pelotas
  • Campus Universitário – Caixa Postal 354 – Pelotas - RS
96010-900 Pelotas
Rio Grande do Sul
BR
  • (53)98121-5855
Eduardo Dalcin

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers f15facfb-b1da-4fdd-b4cb-94a850ee6b0b
https://ipt.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/resource?r=pel