It belongs to the section of Plant Biology of the Department of Biology, University of Patras, and has approximately 150 000 plant specimens from Greece and other Mediterranean areas. It is a valuable record which contributes greatly to an accurate survey of the Greek Flora.

There has been an electronic recording of a significant part (40,000 samples) of the material of the Botanical Museum. The Botany Laboratory along with the Botanical Museum have taken on the European research project for electronic recording of cytological data of all countries in Europe and the Mediterranean and designated as one of the two centers to record the flora of the Balkans which will be part of the Flora directory of Europe and the Mediterranean.
 

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