Family Geraniaceae in CSBG SB RAS herbarium collections (NS, NSK)

The first herbarium at the Central Siberian Botanical Garden (CSBG SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia was organized in 1946. Now there are two herbarium collections in CSBG SB RAS with their own acronyms and registrations in the Index Herbariorum (NSK and NS). Collection contains about 800,000 herbarium specimens of higher vascular plants, mosses, lichens and fungi sampled in Siberia, Russian Far East, Europe, Asia and America. Our aim is to provide online access to CSBG SB RAS herbarium collections as a worldwide resource for biodiversity study. Writing the long-awaited “Flora of Russia” would be greatly accelerated in the presence of network centers of Virtual herbarium collections of Botanical institutions in Russia. The family Geraniaceae Juss. has about 11 genera and 800 species. In M.G. Popov’s Herbarium (NSK) and I.M. Krasnoborov's Herbarium (NS) about 2800 herbarium specimens from 2 genera, 94 species, subspecies and variations are stored.