A fundament of NECLIME research is taxonomy and the identification of most suitable nearest living relatives of plant fossil taxa. This list shall help to find excellent and easy accessible reference collections around the world, including fossil and recent material offered by our NECLIME member institutes and friends. Each entry contains a contact person for and basic information on comparative material of leaves, pollen, fruits and seeds.
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Fruits and seeds

Additional information on the carpological collections for download
Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Yerevan, Armenia
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Sofia (Bulgaria)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Institute of Botany (KUN), Kunming, China
Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Cracow (Poland)
Università degli Studi di Torino, Modern Carpological Collection, Torino, Italy
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, Modena, Italy
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Carpoteca Storica Orto Botanico di Modena, Modena, Italy

Palynology

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Sofia (Bulgaria)
Comenius University, Department of Geology and Paleontology, Bratislava (Slovakia)
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Cracow (Poland)
Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology, Weimar (Germany)

Leaves

Natural History Museum Budapest (Hungary)
Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria)
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Cracow (Poland)
Senckenberg Natural Historical Collection Dresden (Germany)

Wood

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Cracow (Poland)