MW

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  • Name: Herbarium, Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991, Russia
  • Herbarium Code: MW
  • Current Status: Active
  • Number of Specimens: 1109606
  • Taxonomic Coverage: Vascular plants (including 4,748 types); modest collection of lichens (ca. 10,000 specimens); bryophytes (86,293 specimens); diatoms (857 specimens, use MW-D acronym); no fungi and algae
  • Geography: Worldwide, but strong in the former U.S.S.R., especially European part (390,600 specimens), Caucasus (109,000), Crimea (32,700), Siberia and Russian Far East (184,200), and Middle Asia and Kazakhstan (100,800); Mongolia (27,700); western and central Europe (40,600); other Asian countries (27,900)
  • Date Founded: 1765 or 1780
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