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Ildefonso Zubia Icazuriaga (1819-1891) was a pharmacist, naturalist, and Secondary School teacher in Logrono (La Rioja, Spain). He was al so a professor of Natural History at the University of Oviedo (Spain) and a corresponding member of several scientific associations. His scientific work dealt with a variety of research fields, especially Botany. His herbarium consisted of 4,300 samples of algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants collected in the northern Spanish provinces ofLa Rioja, Vizcaya, Huesca, Burgos and Asturias. His herbarium was published 30 years after his death. In this work, both the most recent advances in Zubia's botanical research and his scientific relationships with European botanists, are presented.