SHORT CHARACTERIZATION OF PLANT SPECIES FROM CENTAUREA GENUS PRESENT IN ”AL. BELDIE” HERBARIUM FROM ”MARIN DRĂCEA” NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN FORESTRY - BUCHAREST

Abstract

”Al Beldie” herbarium from ”Marin Drăcea” National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry is an important herbarium with a significant role in the present research paper.This herbarium is ilisted in Index Herbaria and is composed of approximately 60.000 sheets with dried specimens of plants. From those 60.000 sheets, 71 belong to the genus Centaurea, with 19 species to be more precise. All of these species were collected by known personalities in the field of systematic botany, most of them being Romanian. The species were collected between 1855 and 1951 from the entire world, with a great majority from Romania. The aim of this article is to describe some species of Centaurea that are present in this herbarium. In this way it can be observed how important it is to collect, identify and preserve sheets with dried species in herbarium, given that these species of plants can be very hard to identify