Registry of Biodiversity Institutions, Collections and Databases: Collection

Taxonomic coverage

Scientific names

The 93,000 vouchers of the MGC-Cormof collection are grouped into 245 families, 1624 genera, 6304 species and 8080 taxa (including infraspecific categories). Most of the specimens are angiosperms (94%), followed by ferns and fern allies (4.9%) and gymnosperms (1.1%). The main families in order of abundance are Compositae (10.4%), Gramineae (9.5%), Leguminosae (9.4%), Labiatae (7.0%), Caryophyllaceae (4.9%), Cruciferae (3.9%), Scrophulariaceae (3.6%), Cistaceae (3.1%), Umbelliferae (2.6%) and Liliaceae (2.1%). Main genera in order of abundance are Teucrium (2.19%), Silene (1.60%), Asplenium (1.36%), Linaria (1.19%), Helianthemum (1.10%), Quercus (1.09%), Centaurea (1.08%), Galium (1,06%), Trifolium (1,04%) and Cistus (0.98%). It is important to mention that this collection contains a wide representation of plants from several Protected Areas of southern Spain, as well as endemic, threatened, invasive and ornamental species.

Geospatial coverage

Most of the specimens belong to the Western Mediterranean Region, mainly Southern Spain (Andalusia 84.6% of vouchers) and Northern Morocco (2.1%). Andalusia is composed of 8 provinces, Malaga province being the most important with 57% of vouchers, followed by Cádiz (8.1%) and Granada (8%). More over, 11.2% of the specimens belong to the rest of Spain and 2.1% to 50 countries mainly distributed between Europe, Africa and South America.

Collection period

01/01/1837-31/12/2020

Datasets of the collection/database

Types of objects

Herbarium vouchers

Conservation method

Drying