The Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew houses approximately seven million plant specimens, collected from all around the world. Specimens are either pressed and dried or preserved in spirit. These include over 300,000 putative type and historically important specimens collected by plant hunters, explorers and scientists of great renown including Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Nathaniel Wallich, to name just a few. Regarding CITES-listed flora, according to the information provided to the Secretariat, the herbarium houses 1,518 specimens of Dalbergia spp., 69 species of Guibourtia spp., and 218 Cedrela spp. Citation: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2021). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Herbarium Specimens. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ly60bx accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-10-14.
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