Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e61454 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e61454 Data Paper TUL Herbarium: collections of vascular plants of Tula Oblast, Russia Tatyana Yu. Svetasheva‡, Alexey P. Seregin§ ‡ Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, Tula, Russia § Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Corresponding author: Tatyana Yu. Svetasheva (
[email protected]) Academic editor: Ivan Chadin Received: 28 Nov 2020 | Accepted: 21 Dec 2020 | Published: 24 Dec 2020 Citation: Svetasheva TYu, Seregin AP (2020) TUL Herbarium: collections of vascular plants of Tula Oblast, Russia. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e61454. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e61454 Abstract Background TUL Herbarium presents collections from Tula Oblast stored at the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, Russia, which is an educational and scientific institution that supports various types of scientific activities, including research on biodiversity and nature conservation. The university is a holder of some biological collections, such as herbarium of vascular plants, mosses and fungi collected mainly throughout Tula Oblast and from adjacent regions. New information The collections of vascular plants (9,000 specimens) were imaged in December 2019 and January 2020. Databasing and georeferencing of the specimens from the TUL Herbarium was performed by the staff members of the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University and Tula Local History Museum. Digital collections of the TUL Herbarium are fully available in the Moscow Digital Herbarium (https://plant.depo.msu.ru/) and GBIF (https://doi.org/ 10.15468/ca08cm). © Svetasheva T, Seregin A. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.