Plants from the Turda Area Included in the ‘Alexandru Beldie’ Herbarium

Abstract

The paper aims to present the plants collected from the former county of Turda and their characteristics, that are found in one of the most important herbariums in Romania the ‘Alexandru Beldie’ herbarium of the ‘Marin Drăcea’ National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry. The article presents the studied material, the number of vouchers with species harvested from this region, as well as some characteristics of this large collection of plants, such as the period when the collection was constituted and the periods of plant harvesting. For the studied herbarium, the genera were systematized, as the most representative genera were highlighted. Not only the most important species collected from the Turda County are indicated but, at the same time, the specialists who left their mark on the grassland representation in this area were also mentioned.