**Code**: [MG](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125399) **Organization**: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi **Division**: Campus de Pesquisas **Department**: Coordenação de Botânica **Location**: Belém, Pará, Brazil **Total number of specimens**: 209320 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1895 **Geographic coverage**: Amazonia, including regions outside of Brazil; Projeto Flora Amazônica, Amazonian restingas, Serra dos Carajás, FLONA Caixuanã, Volta Grande do Xingu, and Serra do Cachimbo. **Important collectors**: N. de Araújo Rosa, M. Blanchet, P. Cavalcante, J. B. F. da Silva, A. Ducke, A. F. M. Glaziou, A. Goeldi, Huber, J. M. Pires, G. T. Prance, R. S. Secco, M. G. da Silva, E. Snethlage, R. Spruce, J. R. Swallen, J. Tresling, E. H. G. Ule **Notes**: Updated May 2016 (correspondent update). The Herbarium contains: 1. Nomenclatural types: 3031 2. Historical: important collections made by Ducke (8,571 samples), Goeldi, A. (376 samples), Huber (2,500 samples), Snethlage, E. (257 samples),Spruce (396 samples), Tresling (92 samples), Ule (2,788 samples). 3. Fungous and lichens: 3.895 specimens,especially Basidiomycotinae, Ascomycotae, Myxomicotinae, and historical collections 4. Bryophytes: 7,699 specimens, 96 of which are types. 5. Ferns: 5,311 specimens 6. Seedlings: 179s vouchers specimens. 10. Fruits and seeds: 3,128 specimens. 11. Pollen: 2245 microscope slides of Amazonian species. 12. Histological: 700 microscope slides of vegetative organs (root, stems and leaves). 13. Wood: ca. 7814 vouchers and a collection of histological sections on slides. 14. Essential oils - 900 samples. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2021-06-02 > [!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.