University of Sto. Tomas Herbarium

After World War II, the herbarium was placed under the supervision of the Faculty of Pharmacy and was relocated to Rms 212-213, in the second floor of the Main Building. New classrooms were then needed so the herbarium was again moved to the fourth floor of the same building, at the back of the store room department (Rodriguez L, Acta Manilana).

In 1989, the herbarium was turned over to UST-RCNS and again relocated to the fourth floor of the UST Hospital Clinical Division. The herbarium is currently housed at Rm 301 of the Thomas Aquinas Research Center (TARC) and is provided with more space for the plant collections and its own laboratory for the processing of specimens. Plant specimens collected from different provinces all over the country by undergraduate and graduate students (Figure 1) as well as resident researchers have greatly contributed to the bulk of the herbarium's collections.