POST HERBARIUM    click here  for Plants of Lebanon Website

AUB's Post Herbarium is the only herbarium in Lebanon, and it is listed in The Herbaria of the World, 8th edition.  There are no known herbaria in Syria or Jordan, although there are other herbaria elsewhere in the Middle East (in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and Iran).

The Herbarium contains more than 20,000 plant specimens belonging to 177 families and 955 genera of the flowering plants and ferns of Lebanon and adjacent regions.   Each of the plant species described in the Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai, by Dr. George Post, is represented.   The Flora was published in English by the American University of Beirut in 1883 and again in 1896.   In 1932, a two-volume edition, revised and enlarged by John E. Dinsmore of the American Colony, Jerusalem, was published by the AUB Press.  This handbook remains the standard reference work for the flora of Lebanon.

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