Massive imaging of herbarium collections is performed only in a few countries, leading to disproportions in geographical coverage of the world’s flora across virtual herbaria. | Turkish Journal of Botany Turk J Bot (2018) 42: 801-805 © TÜBİTAK doi: Research Note Moscow Digital Herbarium, an online open access contribution to the flora of Turkey, with a special reference to the type specimens 1, 1 2 1 Alexey P. SEREGIN * , Dmitry F. LYSKOV , Ksenia V. DUDOVA Herbarium, Department of Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 2 Department of Higher Plants, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Received: Accepted/Published Online: Final Version: Abstract: Massive imaging of herbarium collections is performed only in a few countries, leading to disproportions in geographical coverage of the world’s flora across virtual herbaria. The Moscow University Herbarium (MW) digitised all Asian collections in 2016–2017 and published them online at , including 3283 specimens from Turkey. These collections include important historical gatherings by . Boissier, C. Haussknecht, and T. Kotschy and recent collections by the Moscow University staff members. Currently, MW holds 331 type specimens of 285 taxa described from Anatolia—19 holotypes, 47 isotypes, 48 isolectotypes, and 203 syntypes. Key words: Asia Minor, authentic collections, historical collections, vascular plants 1. Introduction Massive imaging of herbarium collections has changed their accessibility for researchers and wider audience throughout the world. Successful efforts on rapid scanning of more than one million specimens have been undertaken in Paris (P) (Le Bras et al., 2017), Leiden (L) (Heerlien et al., 2015), Beijing (PE) (Ma and Xu, 2014), New York (NY) (Thiers et al., 2016), Mexico (MEXU) (Gerenandt et al., 2014), Washington (US) (Orrell and Hollowell, 2018), and Meise (Engledow et al., 2017). This list should be supplemented with five herbaria from China, three from Europe, and two .
