[[File:HERB BIN RAS.jpg|thumb|]] The '''Komarov Botanical Institute''' of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] ({{langx|ru|Ботанический институт им. В.Л.Комарова РАН}}) is a leading [[botany|botanical]] institution in Russia, It is located on [[Aptekarsky Island]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]], and is named after the Russian [[botanist]] [[Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov]] (1869–1945). The institute was established in 1931 as merger of the Botanical Garden and the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences.
The institute hosts [[Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden]] as well as [[herbarium]] collections that house over seven million specimens of plants and [[fungus|fungi]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}
The Institute's LE Herbarium has approximately 200,000-250 000 specimens from Latin America in storage. The most known collections from Latin America include those of German naturalist [[Georg von Langsdorff|G. Langsdorff]] (collected between 1814-1817 & 1821-1829) and German botanist [[Ludwig Riedel]] (1821-1828 & 1831-1836) from Brazil, G. Mertens (1826) and German naturalist [[Wilhelm Friedrich Karwinsky von Karwin]] (1841-1843) from Mexico, and plants collected in expeditions of the Soviet Rubber Trust in 1926-1928.<ref>{{cite web |title=Herbarium Russian Academy of Sciences - V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Global Plants on JSTOR |url=https://plants.jstor.org/partner/LE |website=plants.jstor.org |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
Among the scientists who have worked there are [[Yevgenia Pobedimova]] and [[Modest Iljin]].
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==Further reading== *Shetler, Stanwyn G. ''The Komarov Botanical Institute, 250 Years of Russian Research''. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1967.
== External links ==
* Herbarium Collections Database - https://www.binran.ru/collections/ {{authority control}}
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