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Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium (BR)
Meise Botanic Garden
Meise Botanic Garden
Botanic Garden
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
BE
https://www.plantentuinmeise.be
Meise Botanic Garden
Meise Botanic Garden
Botanic Garden
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
BE
https://www.plantentuinmeise.be
Ann
Bogaerts
Meise Botanic Garden
Scientific Manager of the Herbarium
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
BE
+3222600957
ann.bogaerts@plantentuinmeise.be
http://www.plantentuinmeise.be
0000-0003-3435-2605
curator
Frederik
Leliaert
Meise Botanic Garden
Scientific director, Herbarium & Library
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
BE
frederik.leliaert@plantentuinmeise.be
http://www.plantentuinmeise.be
0000-0002-4627-7318
curator
Henry
Engledow
Meise Botanic Garden
Database Manager
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
BE
henry.engledow@plantentuinmeise.be
http://www.plantentuinmeise.be
0000-0002-0779-8006
editor
Sofie
De Smedt
Meise Botanic Garden
Digitization manager
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
BE
sofie.desmedt@plantentuinmeise.be
http://www.plantentuinmeise.be
0000-0001-7690-0468
curator
2026-05-08
eng
Meise Botanic Garden (MeiseBG) has a history that goes back to 1796. Today, it is an internationally recognized botanic garden in a park of 92 hectares, and a centre of excellence for plant biodiversity research. MeiseBG houses the 15th largest herbarium in the world, holding 4 million preserved specimens, a comprehensive botanical library, a seed bank and a living plant collection with 25,000 accessions of plants from around the world. Research focuses on plant, algal and fungal taxonomy, evolution, biodiversity conservation, ecosystems and ethnobotany. The preserved collections (including the herbarium, wood, carpological, slide and molecular collections) have a global scope, with a focus on Central Africa, Belgium, and Southwestern Europe, with additionally important historic collections from Latin America. Highlights are the private collections of famous 19th botanists such as Henri Van Heurck (diatoms), Carl Von Martius (Flora brasiliensis), Heinrich Gustav von Reichenbach (orchids) and Crépin (wild roses), which form the historic core of the collections. A wide range of taxonomic groups are covered including: vascular plants, lichens, mosses, liverworts, fungi, myxomycetes, macroalgae, and diatoms. Meise Botanic Garden is dedicated to digitally unlock these precious and unique botanical collections.The Meise Botanic Garden Data Management Plan can be found at https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e124288.
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml
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Worldwide with a focus on Central Africa, Belgium and Southwestern Europe, as well as the Indo‐Pacific marine and the Antarctic regions, with additionally important historic collections from Latin America
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2026-04-28
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Plantae
kingdom
Fungi
kingdom
Chromista
kingdom
Protozoa
asNeeded
Mathias
Dillen
Meise Botanic Garden
Researcher
BE
mathias.dillen@plantentuinmeise.be
0000-0002-3973-1252
Quentin
Groom
Meise Botanic Garden
Researcher
BE
quentin.groom@plantentuinmeise.be
0000-0002-0596-5376
Digitale Ontsluiting Erfgoedcollecties
Ann
Bogaerts
curator
Sofie
De Smedt
pointOfContact
Henry
Engledow
editor
Quentin
Groom
0000-0002-0596-5376
publisher
Paul
Van Wambeke
programmer
Marc
Sosef
0000-0002-6997-5813
user
Digitization of the Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium
The Flemish Government
The Meise Botanic Garden herbarium is home to reference collections for the flora from Belgium, Latin America and Central Africa. There are around 4 million items in the collections in total, which are being digitised with support from the Flemish government in two projects – ‘Digitale Ontsluiting Erfgoedcollecties’ (Digitally Unlocking Heritage Collections, abbreviated to ‘DOE!’ and ‘DOE!2’).
As well as safeguarding the herbarium for future generations, the projects are also facilitating and accelerating the data being made available. Once the images have been digitised they can be consulted on www.botanicalcollections.be. This digitisation means anyone with an interest in the herbarium can access it online, and its fragile items remain safely stored away.
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dataset
Meise Botanic Garden (2022) Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium (BR). v1. Dataset/Occurrence. http://apm-ipt.br.fgov.be:8080/ipt/resource?r=botanical_collection
https://ipt.botanicalcollections.be/logo.do?r=botanical_collection
b740eaa0-0679-41dc-acb7-990d562dfa37/v1.39.xml