Really? Seaweed in the Forestry school? Yes, the EMMA herbarium houses a little and interesting collection of algae. All of them were collected on 1905. In other words, they predate the destruction of the EMMA herbarium in 1936. They may have arrived later as a donation or exchange, or they may have survived the catastrophe…
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Shawn Abrahams and Makenzie Mabry consult the Brassicaceae of EMMA Herbarium
Although they had to postpone the trip several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, finally, in October 2022, Shawn Abrahams – postdoctoral researcher at Yale University (Columbia, USA) – and Makenzie Mabry – postdoctoral researcher at Florida Museum of Natural History (USA) – came to visit the EMMA herbarium. They were specifically interested in observing…
Galal Fashir y Amani Kobbail visit the EMMA Herbarium
Last July 2022, several people from the Sudan University of Science and Technology (Khartoum, Sudan) visited the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid thanks to the Erasmus+ mobility program for staff in non-European associated countries (Erasmus+ KA-107). Two of them requested to visit the EMMA herbarium: Galal Fashir and Amani Kobbail. On July 20th and 21st, we…
We photograph the herbarium sheets
Following the example of other herbaria, we have begun to digitize the materials housed in the main collection of the EMMA herbarium. Until now, only some EMMA type sheets had been digitalized. Type sheets are the basis for descriptions of species, subspecies, varieties, etc. For this reason they are essential in taxonomy and they are…
