University Herbarium, UC Berkeley

Joint Program in Botany between Iranian Institutions and the University and Jepson Herbaria

In May, 1999, Drs Barbara Ertter and Fosiee Tahbaz accepted an invitation to tour Iranian botanical institutions. The trip is chronicled in this web site.

• Itinerary
• University of California press release
• Talk by Dr. Ertter on similarities between vegetation of Iran and that of the American West
  including appendixes:
  1. List of Genera of Vascular Plants with Native Species in both California and Iran
  2. List of Species of Vascular Plants Possibly Native to both California and Iran
  3. List of Species of Vascular Plants Naturalized in California that Occur in Iran
• Catalogue of genera of native and naturalized Iranian vascular plants
• List of bryophytes collected by Ertter and Tahbaz and identified by Daniel Norris
• Botanical Research in Iran