Our herbarium, officially founded in 1990, is identified by the acronym HCIB (registered in the Herbarium Index). It is registered in INE [National Institute of Ecology] in the Office of the Director General of Wildlife, which is an administrative unit of CITES [Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species] in México (register BCS FLO 088 020).

Just as any herbarium, our mission is to systematically gather our representative plant samples to identify floral diversity of the State of Baja California Sur in particular, as well as from Baja California and the Mexican Northwest, in general. Other objectives derive from this basic one related to spreading this knowledge.

The Herbarium collection currently (2008) exceeds 20,000 specimens (phanerogams and pteridophites), whose data has been captured in an accessible data base for reference, with geographic, ecological, and curatorial information.

The largest part of the collection corresponds to samples of Baja California Sur, specifically from the regions of the Biosphere Reserve of the Sierra de La Laguna, Islas del Golfo de California, Sierra de la Giganta, El Vizcaíno, Sierra de Guadalupe and San Francisco, and of the southern region of Cabo. We have an exchange program with national and international institutions that has allowed us to have a certain number of samples from Jalisco, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Sonora and Baja California; from the USA, southern California and Arizona. Unfortunately we do not have a representative sample from Sinaloa.

Assigned staff:

Dr. José Luis León de la Luz. Curator

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