Description
The UPCB herbarium was established in 1952, and it is currently associated to the Department of Botany at the Federal University of Paraná. Its collections include about 98,000 specimens of plants and fungi, most of them representing Brazilian species and with a focus on the flora of southern Brazil. Among the families of vascular plants, its main collections include Melastomataceae, Passifloraceae, Myristicaceae, Orchidaceae and pteridophytes. The collection is totally databased, an about 40% of the specimens were digitized. These data are available through several online resources, such as Reflora, SpeciesLink, SibBr, and JABOT.
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O Herbário UPCB foi fundado em 1952 e atualmente está vinculado ao Departamento de Botânica da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Sua coleção conta com aproximadamente 98.000 espécimes de plantas e fungos, com destaque para espécies brasileiras e um foco especial na flora do sul do Brasil. Entre as famílias de plantas vasculares, as principais coleções incluem Melastomataceae, Passifloraceae, Myristicaceae, Orchidaceae e pteridófitas. A coleção está totalmente informatizada, e cerca de 40% dos espécimes já foram digitalizados. Esses dados estão disponíveis em diversas plataformas online, como Reflora, SpeciesLink, SiBBr e JABOT.
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 102,652 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.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Labiak Evangelista P H, Goldenberg R (2025). UPCB herbarium - Universidade Federal de Paraná - Herbário Virtual REFLORA. Version 1.192. Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/resource?r=upcb_herbarium&v=1.192
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 339e9de5-ee9a-4718-8837-0bc5b4f933f5. 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
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curador
- UFPR - Centro Politécnico, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica. Caixa Postal 19031
- Point Of Contact
- Coordenadora Reflora
- Rua Pacheco Leão 915
- +552132042082
Geographic Coverage
Mainly Southern and Southeastern Brazil. There are also a good set of collections from some National Parks in the Amazon.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-34.307, -74.355], North East [5.091, -34.277] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 339e9de5-ee9a-4718-8837-0bc5b4f933f5 |
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| https://ipt.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/resource?r=upcb_herbarium |