Cévennes National Park / e-ReColNat Infrastructure

This Herbarium was established in the summer of 1970, by a team of several people (Max Debusche, Raymond Dejean, Jacques Lepart, ...) involved in the mission to carry out studies in the Cévennes National Parc (PNC). A catalogue exists, including the list of samples.

The Herbarium contains 1,653 samples of vascular plants, and includes 602 species, most of them are rather typical of the area (with 2,300 identified on the territory). Most of these samples were collected in PNC’s central area. “On every sample is a jeweler’s label, on which is written a number registered in the catalogue. Samples of the same species collected at the same location (sampling station) are gathered inside a heavy white paper envelope, that carries a label”: this envelope label mentions family, species, locality, date, and catalogue number.

The catalogue mentions, if necessary, the floristic survey number corresponding to the location of the collected sample. thus, we can retrieve the gradian coordinates for each recorded location in a series of 5 leaflets corresponding to the files of the completed floristic surveys.

Initially, the samples had been grouped by families, and sorted by PNC sector type (Causse Méjean, Plateau of Lingas, eastern and southern slope of the Mount Lozère etc). In 2012, envelopes kept in bundles and gathering plants of the same family, were sorted to be classified by genus and species.

The nomenclature follows P. Fournier’s Flora.

The Herbarium is poisoned with calomel (mercury chloride).

Contact
Frantz Hopkins : frantz.hopkins@cevennes-parcnational.fr