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Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Coordinates: 50°06′N 20°00′E / 50.1°N 20°E / 50.1; 20
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Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany
Established5 October 1953 Edit this on Wikidata
LocationKraków, Poland Edit this at Wikidata
Coordinates50°06′N 20°00′E / 50.1°N 20°E / 50.1; 20
Key holdingsPolish Academy of Sciences Edit this on Wikidata
DirectorLucyna Śliwa Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.botany.pl
Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences is located in Poland
Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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The Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany (Instytut Botaniki im. Władysława Szafera, Polish) in Kraków, Poland is a major European herbarium containing a collection of over 650,000 vascular plants, bryophytes, algae, fungi, lichens, and various plant fossils.[1] The vascular plant specimens are primarily from Central Europe with a specialization in alpine plants.[1] The bryophytes are Polish, Antarctic and subAntarctic, and East African.[1] The fossil plants are largely Central European.[1] Main publications include Acta Palaeobotanica, and the Polish Botanical Journal.[1]

The herbarium was established in the 1950s by professor of botany and paleobotany, Władysław Szafer, at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[2]

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  1. ^ a b c d e New York Botanical Garden. "New York Botanical Garden Herbarium details for KRAM, ładysław Szafer Institute of Botany". Retrieved 2009-02-01.
  2. ^ Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany. "Institutional History of the Herbarium". Retrieved 2009-02-01.
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