Virtual Herbarium ALTB (South-Siberian Botanical Garden)

"Virtual Herbarium ALTB" is a digital collection of Herbarium ALTB specimens (Barnaul, Altai State University). It is one of the most dynamically developing Herbaria in Russia, and ranks seventh in the country in terms of herbarium specimen’s number (over 450,000 sheets). Herbarium ALTB is the largest collection of plants from transboundary territory of the Altai Mountainous Country and the main empirical material of the project "Flora Altaica" (http://altaiflora.asu.ru). The Altai and Sayan territories are included to the list of program "The Global 200. Priority ecoregions for global conservation".