Herbarium of the University of Jaén

Description

The herbarium of the University of Jaén (JAEN) is a collection of vascular flora founded in 1973. Most of the sheets it houses have been collected in the province of Jaén and other nearby provinces such as Ciudad Real and Granada. Of particular note are the herbariums of the Sierra de Andújar from the thesis of retired Professor Dr. Eusebio Cano (1,800 sheets), of the Alto Guadalén (Vilches) by Dr. Juan Luis Hervás (1,700 sheets), and of the Sierra de San Andrés y del Agua (Ciudad Real) by Dr. Carlos Fernández García-Rojo (2,500 sheets). The herborizations by the founder of the JAEN herbarium, retired Professor Dr. Carlos Fernández López (1950-2025), along with his numerous collaborators, constitute the core of the collection (more than 13,300 sheets). These materials have been used for numerous scientific studies, doctoral theses and relevant publications such as Vascular Flora of Eastern Andalusia (Blanca et al., 2009, 2011) and Flora iberica (Castroviejo, 1986-2021). The rest of the documents were obtained mainly through exchange or donation (8,437 sheets), with 4,944 coming from the 50 Spanish provinces, with the exception of the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. There are also 3,493 sheets from 35 European countries (in order of abundance: France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Cyprus, Andorra, Ireland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, Malta, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Iceland, Norway and San Marino), 10 African countries (in order of abundance: Morocco, Algeria, Burundi, Rwanda, Tunisia, Cameroon, Egypt, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania), 13 Asian countries (in order of abundance: Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Israel and Iran), 2 South American countries (Brazil and Paraguay) and 2 North American countries (USA and Canada), thanks to the exchanges that have been carried out since 1980 with institutions such as the Botanical Institute of Barcelona (BC), the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (MA) or the University of Liège (LG). Interesting exsiccatae and collections stand out such as those of the "Société pour l'Échange des Plantes Vasculaires de l'Europe Occidentale et du Bassin Méditerranéen" (previously "Société Française...") with 4,169 specimens, the "Exsiccata Plantae Ab Instituto Botanico Barcinonensi Anno MMII Distributae" of the BC Herbarium with 757 sheets, "Flora Iberica" ​​from the JACA Herbarium (199) and others such as "Plants of the Basque Country and Alto Ebro", "Centuria I-November 2002" and "Centuria II-Octubre 2005" (VIT Herbarium), "Flora Regni Granatense II” and "Flora Regni Granatense III” (GDA Herbarium) and "Exsiccata "Pteridophyta Iberica". Among the collections, there are 85 sheets from the Herbarium of Jiennense (MA) and, to a lesser extent, "Flore du Burundi", "Flore du Rwanda", "Flore de Cameroon", "Flora Anatolica (M. Nydegger), "Flora de Euskadi" (Herbarium Alejandre), "Plantes de Espagne" (Sennen), "Iter Maroccanum" (Font Quer), Herbarium Segura Zubizarreta, etc. Worthy of note are interesting historical sheets collected by illustrious 19th-century Spanish authors such as Frederic Trèmols and Estanislau Vayreda, and 20th-century authors such as Pius Font Quer, Enric Gros, Josep Cuatrecasas, Emilio Guinea, Antoni Bolòs, and Pedro Montserrat. The first data from the JAEN Herbarium began to be published in 2022 thanks to the Research Project “The herbarium of the University of Jaén: a botanical and historical heritage applicable to biological research” (Institute of Giennenses Studies, Provincial Council of Jaén: 10/11/2021-10/11/2022) - The degree of computerization of the JAEN herbarium has reached 50% of the collection in 2025 thanks to the Research Project “Plants of the world in the Herbarium of the University of Jaén (1856-2007)” (Institute of Giennenses Studies, Provincial Council of Jaén: 10/02/2024-10/01/2025).