Collection of Georg Heinrich Langsdorff

Dates of collection: 1814-1817, 1821-1829 Region of collection: South America (Brazil). Collector(s): Langsdorff G.H. LE Section of storage: General Section (main funds). Notes: G.H.Langsdorf took part in the first round-the-world trip of Kruzenshtern as a naturalist. He collected plants in Alaska, California, Kamchatka and Siberia. Later, being the Russian consul in Brasil, he organized a number of expeditions for study of a nature of this country in 1814-1817 and 1821-1829. References: Lipshits S.Yu. & Vasilchenko I.T. 1968. Tsentralnyi Gerbariy SSSR: istoricheskiy ocherk [Central Herbarium of the USSR: historical abstract]. Leningrad, Nauka. Compiler & Date: Yu.R.Roskov, 2004

Elymus mollis Trin. (Holotype) Croton compressus Lam. (Representative specimen) Viola langsdorfii Fisch. (Representative specimen)