Description of the individual lots of the herbarium sheets from K. Trinius’ collection
M.F. Adams. About 30 sheets. Another more than 300 sheets collected by him can be found in the general funds of MW (Siberian and Caucasus sections).
M. von Bieberstein. Extremely valuable collection estimated at 150 sheets, including around 100 syntypes.
S.G. Gmelin. About 40 sheets. His collections from Persia and Caucasus (1770-1784) were the subject of interest for many botanists, including K. Trinius, who described some new species based on Gmelin’s specimens.
I. Georgi. About 20 sheets, two of them authentic.
P.S. Pallas. About 100 specimens from the Crimea, Siberia and the Volga river valley. His herbarium was compiled from two main sources: the Botanical Museum in St. Petersburg and the Greifswald Academy (K.A. Rudolphi).
E. Patrin. About 20 sheets, mainly from the northwestern Altai region.
G. Langsdorf and L. Riedel. A large collection from different continents, consisting of hundreds sheets.
C. Steven. More than 220 specimens, mainly from the Caucasus, the Crimea and southern European Russia.
F.B. Fischer. A few sheets, among them several authentic. Of great interest are the foreign naturalists’ collections (some of them dating back to the pre-Linnaean period), which include many authentic specimens.
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