MHA Herbarium: collections of vascular plants
Journal: Open MIND
Year: 2019

The official name of the collection is the Skvortsov Herbarium of the Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences (acronym MHA). In 2020, the herbarium was named after well-known Russian botanist Alexey Konstantinovich Skvortsov (1920–2008). For 36 years, he was the scientific supervisor of the MHA Herbarium.1. History. The herbarium was launched soon after the founding of the Main Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1945. Initially, some minor collections of dry pl