Access to data
Publisher
No
Contact
Contact
Contact
+34-928219580
Address
Apartado de Correos 14 de Tafira Alta
35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas
ESPAÑA
Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo
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Registration date
22/08/2007 -
Update date
22-08-2007 - Download the sheet
Description
Modern botanical garden integrated by research laboratories, herbarium, germ-plasm bank and collections of alive plants of macaronesic flora (mainly from Canary Islands), cactus garden, and palmetum. It was created in 1952 by the Swedish naturalist Eric Sventenius. The Garden has vocation in the study and conservation of the flora from Canary Islands. It is an institution dependent to the Insular Town Cuncil of Gran Canaria.
Overall information
Goals
1- Conservation and research of the flora from Canary Islans (Taxonomy, Palynology, reproductive Biology, in vitro culture, diversity of the populations, etc., 2- Preservation of a Herbarium
Strengths
1- Biology of the reproduction, 2- Taxonomy (nomenclature and Sistematics), 3- Palynology, 4- Chorology and cartography of flora and vegetation.
Taxonomic coverage
Scientific names
algunos/as Protista.
Common names
algunos/as hongos, algunos/as líquenes, algunos/as macroalgas, principalmente plantas.
Geospatial coverage
principalmente Islas Canarias (España).
Temporal location
Temporal coverage
todo(s) taxón existente.