Herbarium
Herbarium
Pavel Tychyna State Pedagogical University
The Herbarium of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University is a structural research unit of the Department of Biology and Human Health of the Faculty of Natural Education and Environmental Management of the University and performs the functions of a resource center – a center for collective use. The scientific curator of the Herbarium is Halyna Anatoliivna Chorna, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Biology and Methods of Its Teaching.
Chorna Galina Anatoliivna –
Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Scientific Curator of Herbarium
Paul Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University
The educational herbarium of the UPU was founded in 1930, when the Uman Institute of Social Education was established and the first intake of 30 students for the biology department was conducted. It is likely that in 1947–1948 and 1956, when the natural sciences faculties of the Odessa, Kyiv and Berdychiv Teachers’ Institutes were joined to our university, part of the herbarium funds of the aforementioned institutes were transferred here. However, the reorganization of the Uman Institute, the unification of the departments of botany and zoology, changes in educational premises and the absence of a special room for storing the herbarium, changes in the heads of the department (initially the department was headed by geobotanist I. Artemchuk, and later by A. Taranukha, L. Kravchenko, I. Onyshchenko, K. Senchuk, S. Gedz) led to the fact that the old herbarium collections were not preserved. In 1987, when the united department was headed by plant physiologist, associate professor S. Gedz, the educational herbarium contained over 3,000 specimens of flora from various natural zones of Ukraine. In 1990-2009, the herbarium was annually replenished with 1-2 thousand herbarium sheets, the most valuable of which, after being determined by the teachers, were added to the scientific herbarium. Currently, the Herbarium contains about 15,000 herbarium sheets of vascular plants.
Herbarium Funds
The demonstration (lecture) herbarium on plant morphology has over 2,000 herbarium specimens (g. s.) on the following topics: “Types of plant nutrition”; “Ecological groups of plants according to moisture requirements”; “Essential oil plants”; “Morphology of the root (types of root systems and metamorphoses)”; “Directions of shoot growth”; “Sprout”; “Morphology of the leaf and its metamorphoses”; “Above-ground metamorphoses of the shoot”; “Underground metamorphoses of the shoot”; “Structure and diversity of actinomorphic and zygomorphic flowers”; “Diversity of inflorescences”; “Diversity of fruits”. The handout herbarium for laboratory classes on plant morphology on the same topics has over 2,000 g. s.
The demonstration herbarium on plant taxonomy has 100 g. s. on macrophyte algae; 100 g. s. Bryophyta; 150 g. s. Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta, Pteridophyta, 50 g. s. Rinophyta. The herbarium of representatives of the Magnoliophyta department, which is used in lectures and laboratory classes on plant taxonomy, has 3600 g. s.
The main collectors of the herbarium are associate professors M. D. Butylo, G. A. Chorna and higher education students of the Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.
The Herbarium’s activities are carried out in the following areas:
- replenishment of the collection with species from areas that are poorly studied and not represented in the main fund;
- creation of a herbarium of regionally rare plants of Cherkasy and adjacent regions, specialized herbariums of medicinal, essential oil, ornamental and other groups of useful plants;
- further systematization and inventory of the herbarium of higher plants;
- creation of an information computer database of the Herbarium.
The oldest herbarium specimen in the herbarium is the Selaginela selaginoides collected by M. M. Ilyin, dated 06/2/1921. Among the 1977 collections are specimens from the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden, in particular the lamb’s-footed foxglove (Lycopodiumselago).
Herbarium specimen Selaginela selaginoides
Herbarium specimen Lycopodium selago
In 2012-2013, the herbarium included the collections of student M. M. Orlova from Southeast Asia, in particular Japanese camellia (Camelia japonica), horse chestnut (Castanea crenata), collected in Tokyo. Thus, the herbarium of world flora and the collection of fruits in our herbarium number several dozen specimens.
Herbarian specimen of Castanea crenata
Herbarian specimen of Camelia japonica
Flowers and fruits of various species eucalyptus
(Eucalyptus macrocarpa; Eucalyptus sp.
Exotic species are also represented by collections from introductory institutions, primarily the National Arboretum “Sofiyivka” of the NAS of Ukraine.
Herbarium specimen of the nut-bearing lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
Fruit of beans and thorns of gledichia trispinous (Gleditschia triacanthos)
In collaboration with the curator of the Herbarium of the Uman National University of Horticulture (UM), Assoc. Prof. T. V. Mamchur, a number of monographs have been published as a result of many years of cooperation:
Order for the establishment of the Herbarium
Regulations on the Herbarium of Pavel Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University
Contact information
Address: Cherkasy region, Uman str. Sadova, 2, bldg. # 1, 324 Aud.
Paul Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University,
Faculty of Natural Science Education and Nature Management
Phone: (04744) 5-5-42
Е–mail: udpu_botanika@ ukr.net
