REPORT

Title: Mission in France (Under support of Sud-Expert-Plantes Project 223-2, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères F.S.P.)

Name: QuocDat NGUYEN,

Eepertment of Terrestrial Ecology & Resources

Institute of Tropical Biology

Period: July 01 to August 6, 2009

1. Objectives:

1.To explore the cooperative project S.E.P. under document No. 223-2

  1. To select and numerical list of plant specimens of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the Herbarium of Paris

2.Implemented activities during the mission:

Date / Activity / Remark
June30 / Travel: Vietnam - Paris
Jul 1 / Meeting and setting up detail mission plan / MNHN-Paris
Jul 2- 3 / Revision, selection specimens in the Family Droceraceae, Pinaceae / MNHN-Paris
Jul6 - 7 / Local revision, selection specimens in the Family Hernandiaceae,Podocarpaceae / MNHN-Paris
Jul8-9 / Local revision, selection specimens in the Family Cupressaceae / MNHN-Paris
Jul 10 / Local revision, selection specimens in the Family Taxodiaceae, Taxaceae / MNHN-Paris
Jul13 - 14 / Local revision, selection specimens in the Family Cephalotaxaceae / MNHN-Paris
Jul15 - 17 / Local revision, selection specimens in the Family Papilionoideae / MNHN-Paris
Jul17 / Local revision, selection specimens in the FamilyPapilionoideae
Training session on management of type specimens in the Herbarium, Paris, by Dr. Hul Sovanmoly / MNHN-Paris
Jul 20-Aug. 31 / -Local revision, selection specimens in the FamilyPapilionoideae / MNHN-Paris
Jul 31 – Aug 2 / Local revision, selection specimens in the FamilySapotaceae / MNHN-Paris
Aug. 04 / Introduction some software to manage Herbarium such as SONERAT,
Visit technique of plant specimens development by
Introduction about specimens recording and coding, by Dr. Hul Sovanmoly / MNHN-Paris
Aug. 06 / Travel: Paris- Vietnam

3. Outputs:

  1. Have learned about the system of management of plant specimens, Kew Index of the plants and type specimens particularly,in MNHN, Paris.
  2. Getting some experiences on using program SONERAT, to manage database of Herbarium.
  3. Local site revision for plant specimens of 10 Families collected in Southeast Asia region and keeping in the MNHN
  4. Sorted out 703 duplicates to send to Herbarium in Cambodia (RUPP), 180 duplicates; to National Herbarium Laos, 209 duplicates, to Vietnam Herbarium (VNM), 305 duplicates and to Hanoi Herbarium (HN), 9 duplicates.

Dr. Sovanmoly HUL

Associate Professor, MNHN-Paris

Editor-in-Chief of the "Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam"

Curator, Gentianales & Solanales, the Paris Herbarium (P)

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Departement de Systematique et Evolution - UMR 7205 OSEB

Herbier - Phanerogamie - CP 39

16, Rue Buffon - 75231 Paris Cedex 05 FRANCE

Tel : 00.33.(0)1.40.79.33.57, Fax :00.33.(0)1.40.79.33.42

August. 13,2009

Prepared by: Nguyen Quoc Dat