Plant Biodiversity Resource Centre

Additional collections

The CeDocBiV also houses other collections, including photographs, microscopic slides, field notebooks, drawings and correspondence etc. The Centre’s photographic collection, which is of country flowers and plants, illustrates aspects of plant samples that are lost during the preparation of a herbarium specimen (colour, three-dimensional layout of the floral pieces, etc.) 

In some cases these come from private botanical collections and provide a useful source of information about the collector’s own herbarium. For instance, two of CeDocBiv’s holdings are the field notebooks of botanist Seró i Navàs (1883–1963) and the correspondence between biologist and botanist Creu Casas (1913–2007) with Valentine and Pierre Allorge.  We emphasize the José Cuatrecasas collection (1903-1996), very diverse in terms of type of material (books, books, photographs, etc.).  

Finally, there is also a large collection of SEM pictures of pollen grains, a donation made by Dr María Suárez Cervera upon her retirement. Dr Suárez also donated the collection of more than five hundred pollen grains in microscopic slides, which is one of only a handful of such collections nationwide.