Taxonomical types of vascular plants from the herbarium of the Escuela Nacional of Ciencias Biológicas, Mexico (ENCB, IPN)

National School of Biological Sciences
National Polytechnic Institute
Prol. de Carpio y Plan de Ayala s/n
Col. Casco de Santo Tomas
11340 Mexico D.F.
Phone: 5729 6000
Fax 5729 6000 ext 46205

Dra. Ma. de la Luz Arreguin
Head of the Project
Laboratory of Phanerogams
Department of Botany
Phone: 5729 6000 ext 62331
e-mail: arregin@df1.telmex.net mx

The goal of this project is to collect the catalog of the taxonomical types of vascular plants from the Herbarium of the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas. The catalog has data of 1 208 taxonomical types from North America, Central America, South America and Mexico.

The database contains 1 039 specimens pertaining to 118 families, 451 genera and 937 species of vascular plants, and it pertains to the SNIB.

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