Herbaria Basel

The botanical collections of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Basel Botanical Society ("Herbaria Basel") contain about 700'000 voucher specimens of plants collected by botanists and researchers since the 16th century. The collections include the historical herbaria of Caspar Bauhin (1560-1624), Jakob Hagenbach (1595-1649), and Werner de Lachenal (1736-1800), the herbarium of the Botanical Institute, the orchid herbarium of Jany Renz, and the herbarium of the Botanical Society of Basel (BBG). The specimens are being digitized and are already partly available as virtual herbaria on this website, under the Creative Commons License CC-BY 4.0.

The Herbaria are registered in the Index Herbariorum with codes BAS, BASBG, and RENZ. For requests, please contact the Herbarium Curator, Dr. Jurriaan M. de Vos, email herbarium*at*unibas.ch.