František Nábělek’s Iter Turcico-Persicum 1909–1910 – database and digitized herbarium collection

Abstract

The Czech botanist František Nábělek (1884−1965) explored the Middle East in 1909-1910, visiting what are now Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Bahrain, Iran and Turkey. He described four new genera, 78 species, 69 varieties and 38 forms of vascular plants, most of these in his work Iter Turcico-Persicum (1923−1929). The main herbarium collection of Iter Turcico-Persicum comprises 4163 collection numbers (some with duplicates), altogether 6465 specimens. It is currently deposited in the herbarium SAV. In addition, some fragments and duplicates are found in B, E, W and WU. The whole collection at SAV was recently digitized and both images and metadata are available via web portal www.nabelek.sav.sk, and through JSTOR Global Plants and the Biological Collection Access Service. Most localities were georeferenced and the web portal provides a mapping facility. Annotation of specimens is available via the AnnoSys facility. For each specimen a CETAF stable identifier is provided enabling the correct reference to the image and metadata.

Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on some Stachys taxa (Lamiaceae)

“…However, all the specimens belonging to the exsiccata numbered 1581 (see e.g., barcodes SAV0002170 and SAV0002171) and 1580 (see e.g., barcode SAV0002169) can be identified as belonging to S. mardinensis (Post) R.R.Mill. We have not found any herbarium sheet of this specimen preserved in other herbaria (e.g., B, E, W or WU) where there is some fragments and duplicates of the Nábělek's Iter Turcico-Persicum herbarium (Stafleu & Cowan, 1981;Kempa et al, 2016).…”

“…The herbarium collection of František Nábělek's Iter Turcico-Persicum was first deposited in the herbarium of the Masaryk University in Brno (currently Czech Republic, BRNU) at the time of Nábělek's professorship at this University, and after Nábělek left the Slovak (now Comenius) University, the herbarium was first kept in Arboretum Mlyňany, Slovakia (MLY), then at the Institute of Botany of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (acronym originally BAV, now SAV). The final place of deposit of this collection is the herbarium SAV (Kempa et al, 2016) 4 .…”