**Code**: [BRLU](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126554) **Organization**: Université Libre de Bruxelles **Division**: Department of Organismic Biology **Location**: Bruxelles, Belgium **Total number of specimens**: 300000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1948 **Taxonomic coverage**: Angiosperms; heavy-metal-tolerant flora; orchids; mangroves **Geographic coverage**: Congos, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Benin, Belgium, France, Argentina, Spain, and tropical Africa; Katanga; West Central Africa **Incorporated herbaria**: BRGE (3000 specimens). **Important collectors**: A. Boutquin, R. Desenfans, P. Duvigneaud, J. Lejoly, L. Hauman, I. Parmentier, T. Stevart, J.-J. Symoens, M. Tanghe **Notes**: Updated Oct 2016 (address update). AETFAT (Association for the taxonomic study of the Flora of tropical Africa) library founded in 1950. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2018-02-06 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.