Dataset of herbarium specimens of threatened vascular plants in Catalonia

Neus Nualart; Neus Ibáñez; Pere Luque; Joan Pedrol; Lluís Vilar; Roser Guàrdia

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.77.11542

Dataset of herbarium specimens of threatened vascular plants in Catalonia

PhytoKeys. 2017 Feb 23:(77):41-62. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.77.11542. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Neus Nualart¹, Neus Ibáñez¹, Pere Luque¹, Joan Pedrol², Lluís Vilar³, Roser Guàrdia¹

Affiliations

¹ Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Passeig del Migdia s/n, E-08038 Barcelona, Spain.
² Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, Plaça Catedral s/n, E-25002 Lleida, Spain.
³ Universitat de Girona, Campus de Montilivi, E-17071 Girona, Spain.

Abstract

This data paper describes a specimens' dataset of the Catalonian threatened vascular plants conserved in five public Catalonian herbaria (BC, BCN, HGI, HBIL and MTTE). Catalonia is an administrative region of Spain that includes large autochthon plants diversity and 199 taxa with IUCN threatened categories (EX, EW, RE, CR, EN and VU). This dataset includes 1,618 records collected from 17^th century to nowadays. For each specimen, the species name, locality indication, collection date, collector, ecology and revision label are recorded. More than 94% of the taxa are represented in the herbaria, which evidence the paper of the botanical collections as an essential source of occurrence data.

Keywords: Catalonia; Cormophyta; conservation; herbarium; northeastern Iberian Peninsula; specimen; threatened flora.