Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 36/1. (2016)

Botany

Mihaela S AMARG HÍJÁN

Table 1 : The sozological categories of orchids from museum’s Herbarium

Sozologic category______CR______VU_____LC_______NT

_____Number of taxa_________1________3 2 29

% 2.86 8.57 5.71 82.86

Fig. 1: The distribution of sozological categories

Abreviations:

leg. = legit (collected by)

det. = determined by

В = good state of conservation

Conclusions

A number of 184 herbarium sheets with plants belonging to the Orchidaceae family were processed.

The research of botanical collection of the Natural Sciences Department has identified a total of 42 taxa involved in Orchidaceae family. They are represented by 16 genera, 35 species, three subspecies and four varieties and forms.

Among the species of orchid preserved in the herbarium of the museum three species of Community interest listed in Annexes of the Habitats Directive (Cypripedium calceolus, Liparis loeselii, Himantoglossum jankae) were noted.

The orchids in museums herbarium refer to 4 types of sozological categories (critical endangered, vulnerable, low concern and not threatened). One of these species, namely Liparis loeslii is included in Red Book of vascular plants from Romania as CR (critical endangered).

The collection has an important value, first of all, because it emphasizes a part of the patrimony of our museum, secondly, due to the fact that it completes the knowledge concerning the ecology and chorology of some orchids from Romania and finally, because of the antiquity of some species (for more than half a century) and the collector’s notoriousness.

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