Levantamento da coleção de tipa do herbário do Museu Goeldi.

Abstract

Taxonomic types are biological collections that have served as the basis for the description of a new taxon, at any hierarchical level of systematic classification. This paper aims to present some results of the survey conducted in the collection of types from the Herbarium of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, internationally indexed as MG. The survey consisted basically of recording the information contained on type labels, especially the scientific name, family, name of the taxon classifier, place and environment of collection, name of the collector and, when possible, the bibliographic reference of the journal where the species and type class were described. The MG Herbarium, which completes 100 years of existence this year, is one of the most representative and important depositories of plants in the Amazon, both in terms of quantity (about 150 thousand specimens) and the scientific value of its collections. The types total about 2,000 collections, belonging to more than 100 botanical families. This invaluable and unique biological heritage was collected in all environments of the region, highlighting Terra Firme Forest, Várzea and Igapó. The Austrian botanist Adolph Ducke, botanical explorer in the region for over 50 years, is among those who most contributed to the collection of typa of the MG Herbarium (CNPq/MPEG-PIBIC).