Moscow University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

Herbarium (MW) is the second largest

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after the Komarov Institute (LE). The herbarium is focused on the flora of temperate

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with an emphasis on the flora of Russia. The collections of MW include 1,030,669 specimens (incl. ca. 5K type specimens) (62nd place in the world's ranking) representing 37,100 species and subspecies of vascular plants and 2,223 species and subspecies of bryophytes. MW holds some important historical collections by G.F. Hoffmann, J.F. Ehrhart, C.B. Trinius, J.R. and J.G.A. Forsters, etc. The Moscow University Herbarium added a millionth specimen to the collections in June 2016. An average annual growth of the collection in 2005–2016 was 15,100 specimens, with an exceptional 22,013 specimens added to the herbarium in 2016. Since 2005, major accessions originated from

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and

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, the

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, and

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(vascular plants); Taimyr, Russian Far East, and North Caucasus (bryophytes). The Moscow University Herbarium has gained budget for the digitisation of collections within the Program of the National Depository Bank of Live Systems, and around 911,000 specimens (89%) were scanned since May 2015. All these records are published already online, including JPG images and metadata required for indexing. Currently, the Moscow Digital Herbarium holds the largest digitised herbarium collections from Russia, Ukraine, Mongolia, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, as well as from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Also, Moscow Digital Herbarium is the second largest hub of digitised herbarium collections from Armenia, Lithuania, North Korea, Mali and the third largest for Cyprus and Vietnam.

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