| Name | Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici Seed Collection |
| Cite as | BGJBB AESM |
| Description | The University of Barcelona's Geobotanical and Cartographic Research Group set up in 2004 a project aimed at creating a seed bank of the plants of the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park. The main objective is the indefinitely preservation of a significant part of the park's plant diversity in a seed bank. The bank whose preserved this seeds is the Barcelona Botanical Garden seed bank. Plants that are considered to be of priority within the park's flora – endemic species, orophytes with disjoint distributions, generally rare plants, etc. – were selected. Each collected sample consists of over 3,000 seeds, the minimum number recognised by various conservation programmes as genetically sufficiently diverse. |
| Kingdom coverage | Plantae |
| Taxon coverage | Carex, Festuca, Luzula, Saxifraga, Veronica |
| Collectors | Blanco, JM Carrillo, Empar Guardiola, Moisés Mercadé, A. Ninot, Josep M Petit, Albert Pérez, Aaron |
| Collection type | Living |
| Primary purpose | Research |
| Include types | No |
| Grouping principle | Repository |
| Development statuses | Active growth |
| Documentation state | All the lots in the collection have been prepared for conservation. All specimens are identified to species level and 75% of lots are geo-referenced. |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried, Frozen |
| Preparation and conservation | Cleaning and separation of seeds from the rest of the flower or plant structures. Then, the lot is weighed, dehydrated with silica gel in a dehydration chamber and placed in hermetic tubes. Finally, the lot is conserved in a freezer at -18ºC. |
| Institution | Botanical Garden of Barcelona - Seed Bank |
| Parent collection | Barcelona Botanical Garden Seed Collection |
| Associated person | Miriam Aixart (Seed Bank Curator), |
| Related material | Projecte: Consolidació del Banc de llavors del Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici. http://www.ub.edu/geoveg/cat/projecte_fitxa.php?projecte=BALLAIG |
