Trèmols herbarium

The Trèmols herbarium was ceded to the Botanical Institute of Barcelona (IBB) by the Real Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona (RACAB) in 1925.

This collection was created during the second half of the nineteenth century by chemist and botanist Frederic Trèmols i Borrell (1831-1900), member and co-founder of the Societat Botànica Barcelonesa (1872-1878).

Between 1930 and 1960, the technician Antonio Marcos carefully reviewed the herbarium adding new labels and rearranging the collection as Conspectus florae europaeae of Carl Fredik Nyman. Currently the collection is being studied and computerized by Laura Gavioli within the Native and alien flora: diversity, collections, and conservation research group. The current collection is organized in 58 volumes rearranged by Marcos, two volumes in the original organization of Trèmols, four boxes of the genus Hieracium and 85 boxes of additional material. At the end of 2019, the cataloging of the entire collection was completed, reaching 12,944 specimens.

This herbarium includes, for the most part, sheets obtained in exchanges linked to the Société Helvétique pour l’Échange des Plantes and the Societat Botànica Barcelonesa. Its major interest is the variety of sheets’ geographical origins, turning this collection into one of the first European herbaria in Catalonia.

 
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This collection is available at GBIF on the following link (exportation date: November 2019). Although the collection is fully computerized in this portal cannot be found: 17 algae specimens, 92 specimens non determined at the exportation date and 66 specimens computerized after the last data exportation to GBIF.

  • 12,769 specimens (98.64%)
  • 49 type specimens
  • 7 specimens with images (0.05%)
  • 10,129 specimens including geographic coordinates (78.25%)
   
References
  • Gavioli, L., Ibáñez, N. & Soriano, I. 2013. Aportació al coneixement de l’herbari Trèmols de l’Institut Botànic de Barcelona. Collectanea Botanica 32: 103–114. Digital.CSIC
  • Gavioli, L., Ibáñez, N. & Soriano, I. 2013. Estudios sobre el herbario Trèmols del Instituto Botánico de Barcelona (BC-Trèmols). Boletín de la Asociación de Herbarios Ibero-Macaronésicos 14–15: 3–14. Digital.CSIC
  • 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. Master thesis. Història de la Ciència: Ciència, Història i Societat. Digital.CSIC
  • Gavioli, L., Ibáñez, N. & Soriano, I. 2016. Type specimens preserved in the Trèmols and Costa herbaria (BC). Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 73(2) : 1–6. 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
  • Gavioli, L., López-Pujol, J., Nualart, N., Vallès, J. & Ibáñez, N. 2019. Plantas pirenaicas amenazadas de los herbarios Francesc Bolòs (s. XVIII) y Trèmols (s. XIX), primeros resultados. XII Col·loqui Internacional de Botànica Pirenaica-Cantàbrica. Girona, Spain. Digital.CSIC
  • Gavioli, L., Pérez-Azcárate, M., López-Pujol, J., Vallès, J. & Ibáñez, N. 2019. Los herbarios históricos del Institut Botànic de Barcelona. La conservación y la digitalización: dos estrategias para el futuro. XXIII Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Barcelona, Spain. Digital.CSIC