The José Planellas Herbarium (Herbarium BCN)

This data paper presents the José Planellas Herbarium, a historic collection that served as the basis for the publication of the first systematic flora of Galicia, Spain.

The Planellas Herbarium includes 2,483 specimens, of which 1,654 have locality data and have been registered in GBIF. The Planellas’s herbarium contains specimens of 1,922 taxa at specific or infraspecific level (subspecies) belonging to 835 genera in 142 families. The most abundant families are Asteraceae, Poaceae and Lamiaceae. The specimens were manly from Galicia, in Spain. Moreover, this herbarium contains plants from other countries, mainly Germany and France, that have handwritten labels written by Willkomm with whom Planellas appears to have maintained specimen exchange. Most of the samples were collected before 1852, when he was a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. This Herbarium hosts the specimens that served as the basis for the preparation of the first systematic flora of Galicia (Spain), including nine types.