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From 2000 onwards, the Herbarium Carpato-Pannonicum collection consisting of vascular plant specimens from the Carpathian Basin has grown rapidly and spectacularly. The registration of the last specimens of the so-called university collection transferred in 1980 from the Loránd Eötvös University to the museum was finally complete. This allowed the newly recruited botanists of the department to turn their attention towards other rewarding tasks. Several materials that had slid into oblivion were now being processed and different collections of various sizes were donated or acquired otherwise by the museum. Financed by grants, a number of significant herbarium collections were purchased, too. On top of all this, and on a new impulse, field work across the country targeted the exploration of Hungarian flora and yielded freshly collected material. Here we give an account on the background, parameters and results of these accessions, as well as other developments in collection management and registration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Our first trip to explore the flora of this special corner of Europe and the Balkan Peninsula took place some 15 years ago and eventually led to the build-up of a systematic research programme of the Albanian flora. This paper presents the history of our research, the preliminaries, the results and the potential continuation. We also give our personal overview of the professional network we formed in the meantime, with an emphasis on the realization of reviewing the Albanian herbarium material dispersed across different European institutes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]