Sennen herbarium

In 1949-1950, the Sennen herbarium was bought to the Escoles Cristianes de la Bonanova (La Salle Bonanova) by the City Council of Barcelona.

Frere Sennen (Etienne Marcellin Granier-Blanc, 1861-1937) completed great floristic explorations on the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco publishing numerous new nomenclatural proposals. His main work was the exsiccata Plantes d’Espagne with 10,309 numbers and thirty series, prepared and published between 1907 and 1937. He distributed over four hundred thousand sheets amongst the main European institutions of that time.

He interacted with other botanists such as Carlos Pau, Hyppolyte Jacques Coste or Pius Font i Quer. In addition, within Escoles Cristianes, he had colleagues who collected for exsiccata such as Frere Mauricio (Morocco), Frere Elias (Castile), Frere Bianor (Balearic Islands) and Frere Jerome (Valencia and Murcia), among others.

The Sennen herbarium comprises approximately 80,000 sheets, and has been partly studied in order to prepare Flora iberica and for various types of North Africa, but still needs to be computerized. This herbarium is very important to interpret the numerous proposals made by the author.

 
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This collection is available at GBIF on the following link (exportation date: November 2019). All the sheets that were computerized at the exportation date are available at this portal.

  • 1,936 specimens (1.74%)
  • 410 type specimens
  • 425 specimens with images (0.53%)
  • 1,623 specimens including geographic coordinates (2.03%)
 
References
  • Font Quer, P. 1938. Necrología. Etienne Marcellin Granier-Blanc (Frère Sennen, E.C.). Cavanillesia 8: 163–172. Biblioteca digital
  • Vallès, J. 1986. Frerè Sennen, un sagaç observador de la nostra flora. Ciència. Revista Catalana de Ciència i Tecnologia 51: 382–384. Revistes IEC
  • Gonzalez, J. A. & Bueno del Campo, I. 2006. Las campañas de Sennen y Mauricio (1930-35): un hito de la botánica rifeña. Publicaciones de la Facultad de Educación y Humanidades del Campus de Melilla 36: 15–36. Revistas UGR
  • Gavioli, L. 2016. Reunir totes les plantes de Catalunya: adquisició de 5 herbaris de l’Institut Botànic de Barcelona a través de les cartes de Pius Font i Quer. Treball final de Màster. Història de la Ciència: Ciència, Història i Societat. Digital.CSIC
  • Nualart, N. & Ibáñez, N. 2016. Las colecciones históricas del Herbario BC (Instituto Botánico de Barcelona). Boletín de la Asociación de Herbarios Iberico-Macaronésicos 17 : 10–18. Digital.CSIC