The characteristics of plants from Hieracium genre present in Alexandru Beldie Hierbarium from I.N.C.D.S. Bucharest

Abstract

The Alexandru Beldie Herbarium from I.N.C.D.S. Bucharest comprises approximately 60.000 plates of some herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs. Amongst them, the present article analyses the 273 plates dedicated to the plants from the Hieracium genre. After a short description of the genre, some of the 112 species present in this herbarium are described. The plants were gathered between 1858 and 1954, with a larger incidence in the periods 1890-1899 and 1940-1949. Their origin ranges from different areas of our country (Bucegi, Ciucas, Retezat, Turda, Buftea, Pojorata) as well as from abroad (Pyrenees, Tirol, Silesia) and were gathered by Romanian specialists (Beldie, Morariu, Georgescu, Cretzoiu) and foreign ones (Stefanoff, Baenitz, Richter, Weisenbeck, Sagorski, Weisenbach, Wolff)