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The Herbarium of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Istanbul University (ISTE)


The Herbarium of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Istanbul University (ISTE) is founded in 1945 in the Department of Pharmacognasy. It was holding 7760 specimens when transferred in 1964 to the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany. This herbarium has got an international acronym, ISTE, in 1956. It is a small, regional university herbarium with mainly Turkish specimens. The typus number is 87 in ISTE. All Turkish monotypic genera have been represented in the Herbarium. Since ISTE is located in the Faculty of Pharmacy, medicinal plants and medicinal families are well kept. The herbarium contains research collection of 100.000 pressed and dried plant specimens which are arranged in alphabetical order and stored in the metallic cabinet. Each specimen has a label containing collection details. In 2006 ISTE is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary to get the acronym, designing a logo and organizing “International Herbarium Techiques Course” with the collaboration of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 


 Staff E-mail
 Prof. Dr. Emine Akalın Uruşak akaline@istanbul.edu.tr
 Prof. Dr. Şükran Kültür s_kultur@istanbul.edu.tr
 Assist. Prof. Dr. Gülay Ecevit Genç gulece@istanbul.edu.tr  
 Assist. Prof. Dr. Mine Koçyiğit mkocyigit@istanbul.edu.tr    
 Assist. Prof. Dr. Yeter Yeşil yesily@istanbul.edu.tr
 Research Assistant, PhD. Bahar Gürdalbahar.gurdal@istanbul.edu.tr
 Research Assistant Onur Tuncayonur.tuncay@istanbul.edu.tr    
 Dr. Bio. İlker Gençilkgenc@istanbul.edu.tr
 Dr. Bio. İbrahim Sırrı Yüzbaşıoğluyuzbasis@istanbul.edu.tr
 Aziz Akgülaziz.akgul@istanbul.edu.tr    
 Ahmet Koçahmetk@istanbul.edu.tr



Some of the rare books and Floras:


◾AsieMineure
◾Catalogue des Plantes du Maroc
◾Conspectus Florae Graecae
◾Diagnoses Plantarum
◾Orientalium Novarum
◾Flora der Schweiz
◾Flora Europaea
◾Flora Hellenica
◾Flora Reipublicae Popularis Bulgaricae
◾Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai
◾Flora Iranica
◾Flora of Cyprus
◾Flora of Egypt
◾Flora of Iraq
◾Flora of Lowland Iraq
◾Flora of Saudi Arabia
◾Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands
◾Flora Orientalis
◾Flora Palaestina
◾Flora U.R.S.S
◾Flore Compléte Illustrée en couleurs de France Suisse et Belgique
◾Florede L’Afrique du Nord
◾Florede la France
◾Flore des Alpes Maritimes
◾Flore Libano-Syrienne
◾Gestaltwandel und Artbildung Erörtert am Beispiel der Orchidaceen Europas und der Mittelmeerlander
◾Iconographie des Orchidées d’Europe et du Bassin Mediterranéen
◾Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa
◾Lehrbuch der Botanik.
◾Mountain Flora of Greece
◾Nouvelle Flore du Libanet de la Syrie
◾Prodrome de la Flore Corse
◾Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Balcanicae
◾Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis
◾Relation D’un Voyage Du Levant
◾The European Garden Flora
◾Voyage Dans L’Empire Othoman
◾Icono Graphia Florae Italicae