LECB

Name: Herbarium, Botany Department, Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg University, Universitetskaya Emb. 7/9, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia
Herbarium Code: LECB

Notes

Number of type specimens: more than 3,500 types, including those collected by: E. Boissier, V. Borbás, H. Cuming, A.P. de Candolle (1778–1841), J. Forster (1754–1794), W. Hooker (1785–1865), G. Schimper, V. Tineo, W. Besser, A. Bunge, R. Hohenacker (1798–1872), G. Karelin, I. Kirilov (1822–1842), St. Krasheninnikov (1711–1755), C. Ledebour, R. Maack, K. Meinshausen, C. Meyer, A. Nordmann, P. Pallas, Ch. Steven, N. Turczaninow (1793–1863), A. Schrenk, etc.;
- Bongard's collection includes around 1,450 type specimens (mostly syntypes and isotypes), e.g. 42 type specimens of the Restionaceae, with 33 of them described by K.S. Kunth, Corallorhiza mertensiana Bong., collected by K.H. Mertens at Sitka, Alaska.