Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia, Niš-Belgrade All rights reserved Abstracts, 14th Symposium on the Flora of Southeastern Serbia and Neighboring Regions, Kladovo 26 to 29 June 2022 eng Raca, Irena Jovanović, Maja Bogdanović, Andrija Marković, Marija Nešić, Marija Zlatković, Bojan Ranđelović, Vladimir application/pdf 925508 bytes https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:3450 Herbarium Moesiacum Niš (HMN) – State of the Art Herbarium Moesiacum Niš (HMN) – State of the Art Енглески The Herbarium Moesiacum Niš (HMN) consists of approximately 2,500 species collected mostly throughout Serbia and other parts of the Balkan Peninsula in the last 60 years. It contains approximately 33,000 exemplars, collected by professors, researchers, and students, with Vladimir and Novica Ranđelović, Vidak Jovanović, Bojan Zlatković, Marina Jušković, Marija Marković, and Olivera Papović contributing over the 3/4 of the collected specimens. The taxonomical analysis of the general collection highlighted the most abundant plant families: Asteraceae (338 collected species), Poaceae (186), Fabaceae (160), Rosaceae (136), Caryophyllaceae (122), Lamiaceae (119), Apiaceae (110), Brassicaceae (107), Ranunculaceae (78), and Cyperaceae (61); and genera: Trifolium (55), Centaurea (38), Carex (37), Crocus (36), Ranunculus (36), Achillea (30), Veronica (28), Potentilla (28), Sedum (27), and Hieracium (26). The collection also consists of a large number of fungi and lichen specimens. The space dedicated for the HMN collection storing is currently being expanded and renovated. Further efforts will be directed toward the registration, digitization, and establishment of the functional seed bank. 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceProceedings