Details for Botanical Collection
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| Collection data | |
| Name | Botanical Collection |
| Alternative name | |
| Description | Botanical collection of dried plant samples that characterize the flora of Riserva Naturale Monte Rufeno and, specifically, the path of Nature of Flower divided according to main types present in the protected environment. Samples preserved are widely diffused samples, and samples of particular interest for their rarity and beauty |
| Description for specialists | The collection consists of 480 samples exiccata dried and stored at the Museo del Fiore and is composed of plants, grasses, shrubs and trees, collected from 1994 to date by undergraduates, interns and associates of the Museum or the Reserve.
Exiccata are divided into the herbarium specimens on display (292 samples), samples teaching (20) and inventoried samples stored in special bags in the closets of the Museum. Samples were collected every complete vegetative part, identified, dried, prepared for the freezing cycle and completed with its identification tag that contains scientific and common names of plants, household and other information on the place and date of specimen collection |
| Cite as | |
| Provenance | The teaching collection on display was acquired by means of an agreement between the University of Tuscia, Museum Herbarium, and Riserva Naturale Monte Rufeno in the preparation of the Museo del Fiore (1994 - 1998), under the supervision of Prof. Anna Scoppola.
The subsequent implementation of the collection was carried out by the Museo del Fiore through voluntary partnerships with curators, scientists and collaboration (since 2004 to nowadays) |
| Notes | |
| Primary grouping principle | Taxonomic |
| Primary purpose | Research |
| Part of collection | |
| Related collection(s) | |
| Known to contain types | Not known to contain types |
| Rights | |
| Rights | The materials are property of the Municipality of Acquapendente (VT) |
| Access rights | The collections/materials are freely available for scientific research, under the regulations set up by the managerial staff. You can freely refer to the collection this museum exposition. It is impossible to consult the collection of samples not exposed without a permission |
| Usage restrictions | Invasive assays are normally prohibited or must be previously agreed with the managerial staff. Uses other than for scientific research (e.g. extensive taking of pictures for commercial use) are subject to written contracts |
| Collection types | |
| Living, Plants, Preserved, Taxonomic |
| McGinley conservation statuses | ||
| Level 7 | Physical curation complete, species level inventory complete. | |
| Level 8 | Physical curation complete, individual specimen label data captured. | |
| Date | 29-09-2010 (dd-mm-yyyy) | |
| Development status | |
| Active growth |
| Collectors | |
| Forti Gianluca, Gallozzi Anna Rita, Lisi Antonella, Maggi Vania, Piazzai Moica, various minor collectors |
| Expeditions | |
| no expedition |
| Formation periods | |
| From 1994 to nowadays |
| Collection extents | |
| 480 specimens |
| Kingdom coverage | |
| Plantae |
| Taxon coverage | |
| 63 Families and 41 Orders |
| Common name coverage | |
| Botanical collection of Museo del Fiore |
| Geospatial coverage | |
| Municipality of Acquapendente, Nature Reserve Monte Rufeno, Province of Viterbo, Lazio (Italy) |
| Living time periods | |
| Actual |
| Specimen preservation methods | |
| Dried, Frozen |
| Media | |
| Files in metal with 146 folders containing each two herbarium specimens and 8 folders bearing the legend, dividing the samples according to the principal found in the Reserve., Shelves for collection samples |
| File formats | |
| unapplicable |
| Item level access | |
| Source: not available |
| Related material | |
| Forti G. (a cura di), 1999 – Erbario Interattivo del Museo del Fiore. Museo del Fiore, Comune di Acquapendente,Viterbo (CD rom)., Forti G., 1999 – Il Museo del Fiore: una giornata immersi nella natura. Informatore Botanico Italiano, 31 (1-3): 232-234., Forti G., 2003 – Il Museo del Fiore: integrazione tra allestimenti interattivi ludici, multimediali e proposte didattiche, per parlare di biodiversità, relazioni ecologiche e utilizzo del territorio. Museologia Scientifica, 18: 150-153., Forti G., 2004 – Il Museo del Fiore e la valorizzazione del patrimonio floristico locale. In: Scoppola A., 2004 - La flora della Riserva Naturale Monte Rufeno. Quaderni del Museo del Fiore 1: 5-6., Forti G., 2005a - Il Museo del Fiore: dieci anni di esperienze finalizzate alla conservazione della diversità botanica, ambientale e culturale. Informatore Botanico Italiano, 37 (1, parte b): 784-785., Forti G., 2006a – I Pugnaloni mosaici di fiori. Memoria della comunità di Acquapendente attraverso la collezione del Museo del Fiore. Quaderni del Sistema Museale del Lago di Bolsena 4, 234 pp. (ISBN 88-95066-00-6)., Forti G., 2006c – Piante per giocare: le piante e altri elementi naturali nei giochi tradizionali nell’area del Lago di Bolsena. In: Rossi F. (a cura di), 2006 – Musei per giocare. Atti del ciclo di conferenze del Sistema museale del Lago di Bolsena, Comune di Valentano, pp. 121 – 144., Forti G., Guarrera P.M., Araceli S., 2010 - Percorsi di etnobotanica per il coinvolgimento degli anziani e la conservazione dei saperi diffusi. Museologia scientifica. Memorie, 6: in stampa., Forti G., Papi R., Paparatti B. (a cura di), 2002 – Archivio Multimediale della Riserva Naturale Monte Rufeno. Museo del Fiore, Comune di Acquapendente, Viterbo (CD rom)., Forti G., Rovelli L., Papi R., 1998. Guida al Museo Naturalistico del Fiore. Comune di Acquapendente, pp. 24., Nimis P.L., Martellos S., Lisi A., Forti G., 2008 - Alla scoperta delle piante lungo il Sentiero Natura del Fiore. Guide progetto Dryades. Università degli Studi di Trieste. Pubblicazione elettronica World Wide Web. http://dbiodbs.units.it/carso/chiavi_pub21?sc=235, versione 10/2008. |
| Institution | |
| Museo del Fiore, Acquapendente (VT) |
| Persons | |||||
Gianluca Forti| Antonella Lisi | Francesca Pavesi | |
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