Search China's Virtual Herbarium for plant and fungi specimens shared by national botanical collections.
JACQ - Virtual Herbaria
JACQ is a jointly administered herbarium management system and specimen database for participating herbaria.
About JACQ - Virtual Herbaria
JACQ - Virtual Herbaria is a jointly administered herbarium management system and specimen database used by a list of participating herbaria, identified by Index Herbariorum acronyms. It holds specimen records for those institutions and links people and scientific names to identifiers from external resources, so users can jump from an entity in JACQ to portals such as IPNI, Plants of the World Online, Index Fungorum, Tropicos, GBIF, Wikidata, VIAF, ORCID and Bionomia. The system also links to other virtual herbaria and aggregators in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Requests and comments about specimens, including identifications, typification and comments, are directed to the corresponding Director or Curator listed in Index Herbariorum rather than handled through the site. Pricing and licensing terms are not stated on the homepage.
Key features
- Shared herbarium management system and specimen database for participating institutions
- Specimen records searchable under Index Herbariorum acronyms
- Scientific name identifiers linked to IPNI, POWO, Tropicos, GBIF and others
- Person identifiers linked to Wikidata, VIAF, ORCID and Bionomia
- Direct links to external portals from entity icons
- Links to other virtual herbaria and aggregators worldwide
Best for: Botanists, mycologists, curators and researchers who need specimen records and name or collector references from the participating herbaria.
Good for
- Covers specimens from many participating herbaria in one shared system
- Connects names and people to authoritative external identifier services
- Points to other virtual herbaria and aggregators for wider coverage
Watch out for
- Specimen identifications, typification and comments must be sent to the relevant Director or Curator, not submitted through the site
- The participating institutions are a defined list, so coverage is limited to those herbaria
JACQ - Virtual Herbaria at a glance
- Website
- jacq.org
- Category
- Research & Data › Open Data & Datasets
- Type
- Website
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Web
- Open source
- Not stated
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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JACQ - Virtual Herbaria FAQ
How do I request a change to a specimen record, such as an identification or typification?
Contact the corresponding Director or Curator listed in Index Herbariorum for that herbarium.
What external resources are linked for scientific names?
IPNI, Plants of the World Online, Index Fungorum, Euro+Med PlantBase, Tropicos, REFLORA, GBIF, and others including AlgaeBase, Mycobank and World Flora Online.
What external resources are linked for people?
Wikidata, Harvard University Herbaria Botanists, VIAF, ORCID and Bionomia.
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