Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium (BR)

Meise Botanic Garden (MeiseBG) has a history that goes back to 1796. Today, it is an internationally recognized botanic garden in a park of 92 hectares, and a centre of excellence for plant biodiversity research. MeiseBG houses the 15th largest herbarium in the world, holding 4 million preserved specimens, a comprehensive botanical library, a seed bank and a living plant collection with 25,000 accessions of plants from around the world. Research focuses on plant, algal and fungal taxonomy, evolution, biodiversity conservation, ecosystems and ethnobotany. The preserved collections (including the herbarium, wood, carpological, slide and molecular collections) have a global scope, with a focus on Central Africa, Belgium, and Southwestern Europe, with additionally important historic collections from Latin America. Highlights are the private collections of famous 19th botanists such as Henri Van Heurck (diatoms), Carl Von Martius (Flora brasiliensis), Heinrich Gustav von Reichenbach (orchids) and Crépin (wild roses), which form the historic core of the collections. A wide range of taxonomic groups are covered including: vascular plants, lichens, mosses, liverworts, fungi, myxomycetes, macroalgae, and diatoms. Meise Botanic Garden is dedicated to digitally unlock these precious and unique botanical collections.

梅泽植物园（MeiseBG）的历史可追溯至1796年。如今，它是一座国际知名的植物园，坐落于92公顷的园区内，同时也是植物生物多样性研究的卓越中心。梅泽植物园拥有世界第15大的植物标本馆（herbarium），藏有400万份植物标本，此外还有综合植物学图书馆、种子库，以及活体植物馆藏——包含来自全球的25000份登录植物。其研究领域聚焦于植物、藻类与真菌的分类学（taxonomy）、演化、生物多样性保护、生态系统及民族植物学（ethnobotany）。该园的保存类藏品（包括植物标本馆、木材藏品、果实学藏品、玻片藏品及分子藏品）覆盖全球范围，重点区域为中非、比利时及西南欧，此外还有来自拉丁美洲的重要历史藏品。藏品中的亮点包括19世纪著名植物学家的私人收藏，如亨利·范·赫尔克（Henri Van Heurck，硅藻类）、卡尔·冯·马蒂乌斯（Carl Von Martius，《巴西植物志》）、海因里希·古斯塔夫·冯·赖兴巴赫（Heinrich Gustav von Reichenbach，兰科植物）及克雷潘（Crépin，野生蔷薇）的藏品，这些构成了该园藏品的历史核心。其覆盖的分类群（taxonomic groups）范围广泛，包括维管植物、地衣、苔藓、苔类、真菌、黏菌、大型藻类及硅藻。梅泽植物园致力于通过数字化手段解锁这些珍贵且独特的植物学藏品。