Libyan Collections in Foreign Herbaria

The objectives of the study were to confine specimens that were deposited in foreign herbaria. The study showed there are thousands of specimens collected from all over Libya by researchers and herbalists who studied the Libyan flora in the past centuries. The largest number of specimens was found in Italian herbaria, and in some European herbaria such as Herbarium Centrale Italicum and Webb Herbarium, Italy (FI), Padua Herbarium, Italy (PAD), British Museum (BM), Herbarium specimens of Université de Montpellier (MPU), Kew, Herbarium Porticense, Italy (PORUN), The Orazio Comes Botanical Museum at the Facoltà di Agraria dell’Università Federico II di Napoli (NAP), University of Jena, Herbarium Haussknecht, Germany (JE), Zurich herbarium (Z), and the Natural History Museum, Vienna – Herbarium, Austria (W), which was represented by one specimen for each. The study found that 56 typification specimens and around 50 plant specimens that are considered endemic in Libya were deposited in foreign herbaria. An annotated checklist of typification specimens, including accepted names, place of collection, collector, and herbarium where they were deposited, was included in this study. As such, it is proposed that further taxonomic revisions be conducted for each taxon.