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OAC-BIO Herbarium

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Description

The BIO Herbarium at the University of Guelph houses approximately 100,000 (image data for 65,535) herbarium specimens, collected from all around the world. The collection provides excellent coverage in ethnobotanical notes and houses vouchers for the Flora Ontario Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS). The collection also contains DNA Barcoding vouchers for the Center for Biodiversity Intitute of Ontario (CBG) of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario. BIO Herbarium is committed to making this important collection more accessible to botanists and others, wherever they may be, for use in their own projects: particularly in biodiversity, conservation, sustainable development and systematics. To this end we have developed HIMS, which contains labelled information and images of all the specimens at the BIO Herbarium.

Data Records

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OAC-Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario from University of Guelph. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/66f3rsta (accessed on [date])

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 68829f71-56b1-4015-a363-ef8f0e1d6e4f.  University of Guelph publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; OAC; OAC-BIO herbarium; University of Guelph Arboretum; Barcode of Life Collections; Ontario; Collections; Herbarium; Specimens; Medicinal Plant Collections; Weeds of Ontario; Cnanadensys; Occurrence; Crops collection

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Contacts

Subramanyam Ragupathy
  • Metadata Provider
  • Curator
  • Originator
Chief Curator
University of Guelph
University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd
N1G2W1 Guelph
ON
CA
(519) 837-7844
Newmaster Steven
  • Point Of Contact
Director
OAC-BIO Herbarium, University of Guelph
50 Stone Rd, University of Guelph
N1G2W1 Guelph
ON
CA
(519) 824-4120 x56002
University of Guelph
Ontario
CA

Geographic Coverage

The Ontario Agricultural College was instrumental in establishing the OAC Herbarium and hence the collection reflects this history with an impressive collection of weeds (Pre -1800). Most of these collections are vouchers from current research projects including the Flora Ontario project. However, there are smaller collections within the herbarium that arm from research initiatives across the globe.

Bounding Coordinates South West [42.19, -166.09], North East [82.83, -63.12]

Taxonomic Coverage

This dataset includes Plantae- vascular and non-vascular plant specimens from the OAC-BIO Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph teaching collection that have been digitized, databased (partially). Major groups are: Lichens, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms.

Kingdom Plantae

Project Data

No Description available

Title OAC-BIO Herbarium Information Management System (HIMS)
Funding Canada Foundation for Innovation

The personnel involved in the project:

Subramanyam Ragupathy
  • Curator

Sampling Methods

Floristic diversity; Weeds of Ontario collection; DNA barcoding collections- collection, identification, preparation of typical herbarium vouchers, accessing in to OAC-BIO herbarium by the respective project investigator.

Study Extent The Herbarium collection has increased from 85000-128000 specimens in the last three years. Most of these collections are vouchers from current research projects including the Flora Ontario project. Dr Newmaster arranged for the donation of several specialized collections from the Canadian National Museum, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Botanical Gardens, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, Canadian Forest Service, Botanical Research Institute of Texas and the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Starting in 2006, the OAC Herbarium will become the repository of all plant vouchers for the Canadian Barcode of Life Consortium, which just received funding from Genome Canada ($630,798 for plants) to barcode plants in Canada. This will include the archival of herbarium vouchers, preserved leaves in silica gel and the extraction of each specimens DNA for cryopreservation.
Quality Control Records are edited on an ad hoc basis.

Method step description:

  1. Data are entered into the Herbarium Information System (HIMS) and some records determined by taxonomic experts.

Collection Data

Collection Name OAC-BIO Herbarium
Collection Identifier Respective donor or project investigator
Parent Collection Identifier Respective donor or project investigator
Specimen preservation methods Mounted

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 68829f71-56b1-4015-a363-ef8f0e1d6e4f
http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=oac-specimens